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Educational entertainment, also referred to by the portmanteau edutainment, [1] is media designed to educate through entertainment. The term was used as early as 1954 by Walt Disney . Most often it includes content intended to teach but has incidental entertainment value.
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A VTech educational video game. An educational video game is a video game that provides learning or training value to the player. Edutainment describes an intentional merger of video games and educational software into a single product (and could therefore also comprise more serious titles sometimes described under children's learning software).
Heureka Klett was a German software engineering company which has made several personal computer games of the sort called "edutainment". They are point-and-click puzzle-adventure games, heavily inspired by Myst for Windows and Mac. These were distributed by Tivola International to be localized for many markets.
Some college professors have adopted the practice of edutainment in order to keep the interest of adult students in long classroom lectures. [1] Here the instructor entertains the students while meeting course objectives.
Educational television or learning television is the use of television programs in the field of distance education.It may be in the form of individual television programs or dedicated specialty channels that are often associated with cable television in the United States as Public, educational, and government access (PEG) channel providers.
Educational games are games explicitly designed with educational purposes, or which have incidental or secondary educational value. All types of games may be used in an educational environment, however educational games are games that are designed to help people learn about certain subjects, expand concepts, reinforce development, understand a historical event or culture, or assist them in ...
Millie & Bailey is a two-part edutainment video game series featuring the titles Millie & Bailey Kindergarten and Millie & Bailey Preschool. Edmark repurposed activities from its Early Learning House titles Millie's Math House , Bailey's Book House , and Sammy's Science House into the two multisubject Millie & Bailey games. [ 12 ]