The Use of Electronic Games in Distance Learning as a Tool for Teaching and Learning

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Author(s): Muhammet Demirbilek (Suleyman Demirel University, Turkey)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 18
Source title: Gaming and Simulations: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-195-9.ch421

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Media & Communications / Multimedia Technology

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Playing game is the basic nature of human beings. Though the concept of learning through game is not a new one, it is generally acknowledged that the earliest educational games and simulations were usually war games (Gredler, 1996). Although electronic games have a very short history, they remain a vital force in entertainment. The earliest electronic game called Spacewar, was developed by a young graduate student named Steve Russell in 1961 on a PDP-11 computer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Herz, 2001). The Spacewar computer game is generally recognized as the first of the “shoot-’em’ up” game genre. Video games were introduced as a commercial entertainment medium in the early 1980’s. The popularity of electronic games specially increased in entertainment sector during the 1990s, due to fast diffusion of the personal computers all over the world.

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