Design and evaluation of a computer based game for education

The use of computer based games for education can improve the learning process. The design of computer based games and the way the users might interact with them is an important and open issue as there are many possibilities and variables to take into account. This paper describes the design and evaluation of shopC, an educational computer board game driven by technology, based on the traditional well-known Monopoly game. Three different dimensions are considered: motivation, learning and gaming. We show the introduction and the evaluation of the game in a pilot study with 58 students from primary school interacting with the computer based game. This evaluation validates the design of the computer based game regarding the three dimensions (motivation, learning and gaming) and suggests a positive effect in the learning process.