教育电子游戏与游戏化教学的现状与未来

Present Status and Future Development of Educational Video Games and Gamification Teaching

当代教育界近年来一直尝试着教学中使用电子游戏或者游戏元素,该领域的先行者们试图以教育游戏或游戏化教学的方式提升教育质量,但因为各种原因始终难以得到广泛推广。近年来的尝试发现,相对于教育电子游戏、游戏化教学虽有一定的优势,但与前者一样,要想在实践中普及推广依然有相当多的困难。通过分析电子游戏中“内容”与“机制”两大要素的作用和地位,对未来如何在教育中使用电子游戏和游戏化提出了建议。

Many educationists spent several years to use video games or elements of video game in education.Pioneers of this field tried to promote educational video games and gamification teaching in contemporary education and anticipated improvement of teaching quality.While for a variety of reasons,these attempts didn’t get wildly recognition yet.Gamification teaching has more advantages than educational video game in recently educational practices,but still faces a series of difficulties.This paper suggests that“Content”and“Mechanism”are two principle elements of video game.Several suggestions about how to develop video games and gamification in educational field in future are discussed through the analysis of these two important video game elements.