Serious games

This bachelor’s thesis deals with serious games or, more precisely, with digital games that are intended for educational, training and information purposes. In the theoretical part of the thesis serious games and their structure are described. These descriptions are followed by examples of serious games in the field of military, business, health care, government institutions, politics, religion, art, and education. The constructivist learning theory and its principles that form the basis of the learning process and educational serious games’ structure are presented. The theoretical part ends with a detailed description of instructions for planning educational serious games and their future developments in Slovene educational system. In the second part of the thesis an example of a computer educational game in a form a didactic application called Postavi lokalno omrežje (Eng. Set Up a Local Network) is described. On the basis of game classification as described in the theoretical part this application is classified as an educational serious game. Learning goals and constructivist elements of this didactic application are analyzed in detail. This is followed by the description of individual assignments, introduction of the application into the curriculum and a suggestion of technical upgrade according to the Web 2.0 principle. The preparation for the class of computer science using the described application is appended to this thesis