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This is a list of notable educational video games. There is some overlap between educational games and interactive CD-ROMs and other programs (based on player agency), and between educational games and related genres like simulations and interactive storybooks (based on how much gameplay is devoted to education). This list aims to list games ...
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).
Educational software, as the name implies,are a subset of Educational games which attempt to teach the user using the game as a vehicle. Most of these types of games target young user from the ages of about three years to mid-teens; past the mid-teens, subjects become so complex (e.g. Calculus) that teaching via a game may be impractical.
Educational game. 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 ...
Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux 10 October 2007 23 June 2011 [44] Free-to-play Tecmo Bowl: theHunter: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Phantoms: Torcs: Toribash: Nabi Studios: Nicalis, Inc Action, Strategy: Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux March 1, 2006 March 1, 2006 Free to Play TrackMania Nations Forever: Nadeo Focus Interactive Racing video game ...
Crosscountry is a series of educational video games for North American students (grade one through grade nine). The games are published by Ingenuity Works, a Vancouver -based company originally known as Didatech Software. Most of the games simulate driving an 18-wheeler, picking up and delivering commodities to the specified cities, and making ...
Celestia. Google Earth - (proprietary license) Gravit - a free (GPL) Newtonian gravity simulator. KGeography. KStars. NASA World Wind - free software (NASA open source) Stellarium. Swamp Gas Visits the United States of America - a game that teaches geography to children. Where is Carmen Sandiego? game series.
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. It has been used by academia, corporations, governments, and other ...