Edutainment

Today we can meet the computer or a newer computer technology on every step. Most people use computers at work, at school or at home for fun. These three occasions are often excluded or combined unsuccessfully. At computers people spend a lot of time. Some people devote their time to education with computers, other for entertainment and fun, the third join education and fun. With the aim to combine these two basic elements edutainment systems were created. Through edutainment systems people can effectively combine both, entertainment and learning. The diploma thesis at first presents the edutainment system, its development, the advantages and disadvantages of edutainment systems. It also presents some theories that influence on development of edutainment systems and the design of edutainment system. In the continuation thesis presents some edutainment systems that have been developed around the world and serve as examples of good practice. For proper functioning these edutainment systems need computer or advanced computer technology. For most of the cases they did research that examined what people feel about the edutainment systems and their response to the direction of the newly formed education. Presented edutainment examples are accompanied with edutainment examples found in the social network Facebook. As edutainment does not relate exclusively to the use of a computer, thesis presents also some edutainment systems that do not need a computer. Additionally thesis gives some suggestions about where to effectively introduce an edutainment system. Part of the thesis is also a proposal for an edutainment system, which can be used at college and at faculty. We propose a theoretical design that is necessary for the further development of proposed edutainment system. An analysis of the problem and the specification of edutainment system, distribution of educational topics, and a graphical user interface applications are also presented