Primary school teachers’ attitudes towards digital educational games: Preliminary findings from the Multiplication Game evaluation

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic among other radical changes it imposed onto our typical way of living, working, and interacting, established online education in both synchronous and asynchronous forms. This in many cases has given alternative forms of education like digital games, more practical potential. Teachers during this period have proposed digital games as a part of the teaching and learning procedure more often. The digital games that managed to prove their value in more effective learning will probably gain a place in the classroom and teachers’ role is significant towards this change. This study presents the results of an online survey with the participation of 184 primary school teachers in Greece. The purpose of the survey is to investigate teachers’ attitudes towards digital games in general and the Multiplication Game (MG) in particular and the findings are positive as teachers’ opinion for both MG and digital games is high.