Educational Games and IT Professionals: Perspectives from the Field

摘要

In this paper the authors will give a perspective on educational games application in the field of IT. Main topic of this research will be capacity for applying modern information technologies for developing game-based learning platform. During analysis, they found that more research is needed in order to improve application of games in education of IT professionals. At first place, researches should cover listed problems: how to design educative games in order to achieve better learning effects; how to develop software tools to automate educative game development process; and establish methods and techniques for knowledge and skills assessment utilizing educative games. Miroslav Minovic is assistant professor of informational technology at University of Belgrade, School of Business Administration. He is also active member of Laboratory for Multimedia Communications. His research interests include human-computer interaction as well as the development of advanced user interfaces in education and games. Minovic received his PhD in informational technology from University of Belgrade in 2010. Velimir Stavljanin is assistant professor of marketing and communications at University of Belgrade, School of Business Administration. He is also active member of Laboratory for Multimedia Communications. His research interests include multimedia systems development. Milos Milovanovic is a teaching assistant at the University of Belgrade, School of Business Administration. He is also member of Laboratory for Multimedia Communications. Recently he acquired a master's degree in Information Technologies and became a PhD student in the same area. His research interests include game-based learning, distributed informational systems and multimedia.