Distinguishing Edutainment and Gamification

Game based Learning vs. Gamification from the Higher Education Students' Perspective

The term Edutainment, has been fabricated by combing the two words “Education” and “Entertainment”, and as this term expresses, this concept provides educational entertainment or entertainment-education. That means this let the student to learn subject matters with entertainment, so that the students get attracted to learning rather than getting used to learning through the teacher centered learning concept. Under this novel concept called “Edutainment” there comes a couple of new ways of teaching like Game Based Learning and Gamification. These concepts can be applied to enhance the learning procedure of students in various age levels. Hope this basic introduction gives you an understanding of Game Based Learning vs. Gamification in higher education from Computer Science students' perspective.


WHAT  GAMIFICATION  IS  NOT...

Gamification is not edutainment, nor is it games-based learning. Often it seems that the spaces of edutainment and games-based learning get mixed up with gamification. Edutainment is the use of  entertainment devices or activities used to teach school based subjects or concepts.