A review on use of escape rooms in education – touching the void

Taraldsen, Lene Hayden; Haara, Frode Olav; Lysne, Mari Skjerdal; Jensen, Pernille Reitan; Jenssen, Eirik S.

doi:10.1080/20004508.2020.1860284

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“…Since 2017, the study of ERs has increased and spread around the academic world, incorporating technological tools and expanding into areas beyond the entertainment section, such as education. Although this scientific field is still in its infancy, the majority of articles have prioritized theoretically mapping the current situation in the use of ERs in education [21,41,97], designing ERs for pedagogical purposes [30], reporting the users' experiences in collaborative rooms-either real or virtual [98], or collecting and providing feedback data on learners' performance, the degree of content understanding and participants' perceptions for the use of the ER games in post-activity tests [14]. By identifying gaps in the literature, the aim of this paper was to review the methodological approaches and assessment tools utilized to collect the data derived from participants' responses and tutors' points of view, to present common education and design characteristics and practices in the use of DEERs, and to examine their impact on specific learning achievements in cognitive, behavioral and affective sectors.…”

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Digital Escape Rooms as Innovative Pedagogical Tools in Education: A Systematic Literature Review

2021

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This paper aims to present a systematic literature review on state-of-the-art Educational Escape Rooms (EERs) with the use of digital technologies. More specifically, the focus of the study is to present the current developments and trends concerning Digital Educational Escape Rooms (DEERs) and investigate how they foster learning outcomes for online learners. Additionally, the present study provides insights into the design process of such technology enhanced EERs. This review is attributed to identifying and covering research gaps since the current literature has focused on the pedagogical aspects of Escape Rooms (ERs) in education, but no studies seem to have been conducted in regard to the pedagogical implications of Digital Escape Rooms (DERs) in educational environments. Based on the exhaustive literature review, an agenda for future research is promised and the implications for designing innovative ER approaches have been highlighted. The anatomy of the fundamental components of conducting systematic literature reviews was followed. The results of the review could be addressed to multidisciplinary teams related to education, game researchers, educational researchers, faculty members, scholars, instructors, and protagonists of educational systems to encourage them to thoroughly study the core elements of DEERs and how they can be applied in virtual educational contexts to facilitate students’ learning achievements.

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Digital Escape Rooms as Innovative Pedagogical Tools in Education: A Systematic Literature Review

2021

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“…As described in a similar study reviewing the use of escape rooms in education, "some authors use the term "breakout room" as a synonym for an escape room and narrower terms such as "escape game," "serious escape room," and "breakout box."" [16].…”

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“…After removing duplicate articles and all immaterial content that doesn't comprise medical applications, a combined 72 articles were analyzed: two from 2017, nine from 2018, twenty from 2019, nineteen from 2020 and twenty-one from 2021. [16] Results…”

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Escape Rooms in Medical Education: Deductive Analysis of Designs, Applications and Implementations

Neetoo¹,

Zary²,

Zidoun³

2021

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Background: Serious games are conceptualized as a broad topic and overlap segments of more modern forms of education: e-learning, edutainment, game-based learning, and digital game-based learning. Serious Games aligns with digitalization and the modern era and creates novel opportunities for learning and assessment in medical education. Escape rooms, a type of serious games, merge mental and physical aspects to reinforce critical skills useful in daily life. It challenges logic and reasoning and demands careful analysis of situations to correlate and solve different stages of the escape room under pressurized, timed conditions. Furthermore, it serves as an adequate environment to build problem-solving skills, communication skills, and leadership skills through the collaboration of people to achieve a common goal. The aim of this study was to investigate the applications of escape rooms in Medical Education. Method: This study investigated the applications of escape rooms in medical education. Serious games are expanding in education and have attained great relevance due to their intriguing and intrinsically motivating attributes. Within serious games, we focused on escape rooms in which participants are locked in a room, faced with puzzles that must be solved to ‘escape the room’. Compiling the data from the first 100 hits of medical application of escape rooms, we found 72 cases and categorized them by year, specialty, participants structure, simulation experience, and design. Results: We reported on escape rooms in medical education by the year in which they were reported, the medical specialty, the participant structure, grouped or individual, the experience design; real, hybrid, or digital, and the modality of the delivery. 72% of the escape rooms focused on four main areas: nursing education (25.0%), emergency medicine (22.2%), pharmacy (12.5%), and interprofessional education (12.5%). Most of the escape rooms had a group-based physical design and little attention was given to provide a detailed description of the design considerations, such as the pathway type (linear, semi-linear, open). Conclusion: Escape rooms are applied in a wide range of medical education areas. In Medical Education, group-based on-site escape rooms with a focus on nursing, emergency medicine, pharmacy and interprofessional education dominates the implementation landscape. To further advance the field, stronger emphasis on making explicit the design considerations will advance the research and inform implementations.

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“…There are many pedagogical reasons why educational escape games are an attractive approach to learning. In addition to curriculum delivery, they are also suitable for developing many transversal or soft skills (Grande- de-Prado et al, 2021;Guckian et al, 2020;Sowell, 2020;Taraldsen et al, 2020;Veldkamp & Knippels, 2021;Wiemker et al, 2015):…”

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“…Escape rooms offer not only fun activities but also team-building exercises, active teaching of creative and group problem-solving, and exploring research issues related to problem-solving thinking, communication and collaboration skills (Pan et al, 2017). Using the escape rooms in an educational context has been shown to benefit students, such as facilitating the practice and development of teamwork, leadership, creative and problem-solving thinking, and communication skills (Taraldsen et al, 2020).…”

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How do educational Escape Rooms help in improving Soft Skills?

Manojlovic¹

2021

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Over the past 20 years, work, play, and learning have changed dramatically through technology. Today, we need different skills than in the 20th century, and educational institutions have a key role to play in developing skills. Unfortunately, schools are unable to keep pace with the development of skills that are essential elements of student success. Educators around the world are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of soft skills and play a huge role in ensuring that students are properly prepared for the world of university and work. In contrast, traditional education does not always provide the right tools to improve student success in this area. Following the recent shift from traditional didactic classroom models to the adoption of active learning approaches, escape rooms are increasingly being used in academia as a method for experiential, peer-group, game-based learning. Educational escape rooms are emerging as a new type of learning activity under the promise of enhancing students’ learning through highly engaging experiences. The paper aims to present opportunities to develop soft skills in the school setting using educational escape rooms. The study also reports on testing the self-developed escape room environment for educational purposes.

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A review on use of escape rooms in education – touching the void

Cited by 63 publications

References 55 publications

Digital Escape Rooms as Innovative Pedagogical Tools in Education: A Systematic Literature Review

Digital Escape Rooms as Innovative Pedagogical Tools in Education: A Systematic Literature Review

Escape Rooms in Medical Education: Deductive Analysis of Designs, Applications and Implementations

How do educational Escape Rooms help in improving Soft Skills?

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