Elements to consider the video game as a support tool in the university classroom

Abstract

The video game represents a great opportunity for the student community to refresh and diversify the activities and tasks inherent in teaching and learning, taking advantage of the immersive, interactive and multimedia features offered by videogames to improve the use of university students. The objective of this work is to identify and make known the characteristic elements that certain videogames must have so that they can be used in university work, since there are endless options in the market whose general purpose is to entertain, however , you can highlight certain elements within them that can support the teaching practice. The present investigation methodology is of the theoretical type with descriptive study through which it is tried to offer validity, utility and universality to the phenomenon of study. The contribution is led towards the improvement of certain university educational procedures by identifying certain distinguishing parameters in video games that provide certainty that they could be used as support to improve the university teaching practice.