Research And Design Of Educational Game Based On HTML5 For Mobile Platform

In recent years, with the innovations of information technology, a variety of technology applications in education is becoming more and more mature,a wide range of educational resources, advanced educational equipments and effective teaching methods emerge in endlessly,informatization of education keeps a momentum of rapid development. At the same time, the development of the internet and the popularity of smart phones, tablets and other mobile devices are also gradually changing people’s learning habits. Learners tend to use their mobile devices to meet the needs of their own learning at anytime and anywhere, this kind of mobile learning based on intelligent mobile devices are being used by more and more people.Educational games are advocated by many educators since the games provide a useful way for teachers, and are also popular with students. The educational games usually combine subject knowledge, and have a strong educational relevance and attractiveness. It can fully stimulate the interest of the learners and improve their learning efficiency. The combination of educational games and intelligent mobile devices serve two purposes, it can play the advantages of educational games and can also meet the needs of mobile learning.According to the target of mobile learning, there are several issues need to be considered. For example, how to develop educational games with good characteristics of cross-platform to meet the requirement of mobile learning; how to design and development a educational game under the guidance of education theory to keep the balance of study and entertainment; how to make the education games carrying subject knowledge to meet the needs of learners and how to evaluate efficient of the educational games.Based on these problems, this paper studies the nature of education game, the design strategies and the evaluation methods, according to the teaching requirement of "compulsory education mathematics curriculum standards(2011 Edition)", this paper takes the emphases and difficulties knowledge of first grade math textbook as an example to design and development an educational game with HTML5 for mobile platform. The main contribution of this design is to create a relaxing and pleasant learning environment to stimulate the learning interest of student, improve their learning efficiency and achieve the aim of edutainment.