HTML5 as Interactive Educational Media

Nowadays, IT development is moving into online media, the Internet. It happens because of this globalisation era’s needs that urge every information to be able to be accessed by anyone, anywhere, and anytime. Inevitably, the internet development needs to keep running. HTML5 is one of the big leaps on the internet. HTML5 enables every media, such as game, and any other media that formerly could only be accessed by one PC, to be accessed by many gadgets easily. Recently, HTML5-based games have started to replace flash-based games. HTML5 based-games have started to pop out, of which can be accessed at html5games.com. The usage of game as online educational media is still dominated by flashbased games, whereas there are already many HTML5-based educational games in the Internet. For example, on www.mathplayground.com we can learn about logic and mathematics through the internet. By playing those games, we’re lead to have fun while gradually improving our logic and mathematics skills. We’re also able to access them using any OS, providing that it has a web browser. Because of that easiness, some developers have started to consider HTML5 as educational media. With more developers, more educational games will give their contribution to the society