Challenges in the evaluation of educational computer games

Computer games have been used for educational purposes nowadays. The implementations of educational computer games bring some challenges and issues that need to be highlighted. There are three challenges in evaluating educational computer games which are the evaluation criteria, the evaluators and the evaluation process. Evaluation criteria have been identified and it consists of five issues which are Interface, Educational, Content, Playability and Multimedia. The evaluators are real and surrogate users. The third challenge is regarding evaluation process and one of the suitable processes is by implementing formative evaluation in order to develop a comprehensive and practical educational computer games.