The research on the application of game in online education

Game contains both positive learning factors and a lot of contents unrelated to the learning, so the integration of game and education is a gradual process. This paper analyzes the positive elements and learning factors of the game, and proposes the application form of game in education. The game provides an environment with fun, competition and cooperation under control, which makes the game an educational supplementary means. The game´s intrinsic motivation such as challenge, curiosity, control, competition, cooperation is full exploited to stimulate students´ interest in learning, so they can take the initiative to learn and maintain the learning time longer.