DEVELOPMENT OF GENIALLY BASED EDUTAINMENT GAMES AS MEDIA TO IMPROVE STUDENT’S LEARNING MOTIVATION

Abstract

The low students’ learning motivation influences the suboptimal learning process. 
The learning activities tend to be monotonous and make the students have a lack of interest in 
learning. Making creative and innovative media is an effort that can be made to improve 
students’ learning motivation. The research aims to develop genially based edutainment game 
learning as media that can encourage and cultivate students' learning enthusiasm. The 
research used the Research & Development (R&D) method and the Borg & Gall development 
model. The research instruments used were validation questionnaires, trial sheets, and 
learning motivation questionnaires. The research results indicate that edutainment games 
based on Genially are valid and suitable for use as a learning media to help teachers in Civic 
Education learning activities. This is supported by the validation results from three experts of 
media, materials, and learning, with an average value of 88% in the highly valid category. The 
average score of learning motivation before applying media was 3.31 in the "sufficient" 
category, and there was an increase average score of 4.42 in the "very high" category after 
carrying out learning activities through edutainment game media based on Genially. It shows 
that edutainment game media based on Genially can also increase students' learning 
motivation in Civic Education learning subjects.