Serious Games in Computer Science Learning Goals

This paper tries to motivate the audience using an interactive and entertaining environment due to the difficult tedious issues existing in the learning of computer science causing the loss of motivation in them. The more the educational environment becomes interesting and attractive, the more the students engage in the educational challenge. The traditional environment was not attractive enough, which creates a boring environment having no motivation for learning. We aim to teach computer science to the students and the audiences in a way different from the traditional ones with the advancement of Game-based learning. In this regard, we not only aim to teach the students, but also to motivate them to learn in an entertaining, challenging and engaging environment by creating a serious educational game. We can teach using serious game and fully monitor the learner's way of learning using the management environment created by the game as well. For example, at which level the learning progress is achieved, or at which level the difficulty of the game was problematic for the student. We can have a full control over the students' learning with regard to the feedbacks, and re-design the stages or the teaching method if necessary. In this method, we can fully monitor the students and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses. This was too difficult to do in the previous traditional environments requiring a lot of time to spend on interacting with each student. We used serious educational game as a new educational method in computer science to evaluate the effect of education on the students. We have selected some volunteers studying this major to fill out a survey in order to compare the effect of education they experienced after playing the game using game-based learning as well as the effect of previous educational environments such as class room learning, traditional eLearning and hands-on learning.