Applying digital escape rooms infused with science teaching in elementary school: Learning performance, learning motivation, and problem-solving ability

Evaluating an Educational Escape Room Conducted Remotely for Teaching Software Engineering

“…A few educators have transcended the physical barrier and have developed purely virtual educational escape rooms [30], [31], [35]- [37]. However, two of these educational escape rooms [30], [31] were conducted exclusively face-to-face. In the case of [37], the activity was hosted in person but students were also given the possibility of playing remotely and individually as a homework assignment.…”

“…The capacity of educational escape rooms to boost students' motivation and enhance their learning has made them an increasingly popular teaching activity in a wide range of areas. Prior research has examined the use of educational escape rooms in several fields, including nursing [11]- [13], medicine [14]- [17], [32], physiotherapy [18], pharmacy [23]- [28], [33], science [30], physics [34], chemistry [20], [21], [35]- [38], biology [31], [39], cryptography [19], programming [22], [29], and computer networks [40]. Nevertheless, it should be pointed out that there is a dearth of research addressing the use of educational escape rooms for teaching software engineering fundamentals and, specifically, for teaching software modeling, a topic of crucial importance that every software engineering fundamentals course must cover [41], [42].…”

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

“…Adams et al, 2018;Zhang, Diemer, Lee, Jaffe, & Papanagnou, 2019). Only two of the studies described an escape room used solely in primary school (Duncan, 2020;Huang, Kuo, & Chen, 2020). The articles were also categorised according to the relevant subject areas (Table 3).…”

“…Several articles emphasise the importance of critical thinking, creativity, group dynamics, initiative, and problem-solving in an escape room setting (López-Pernas et al, 2019;Peleg et al, 2019;Zhang et al, 2019). Given that research and political and socioeconomic sources have noted the need to combine curriculum content with the development of key competencies and 21st-century skills, it is surprising that only a few articles have focused on the use of escape rooms in primary and secondary school (Duncan, 2020;Huang et al, 2020) and teacher education (Sánches-Martín et al, 2020).…”

Escapp: A Web Platform for Conducting Educational Escape Rooms

“…Different researchers have reported on using this sort of activities in a wide variety of fields including nursing [8]- [10], medicine [11]- [15], physiotherapy [16], pharmacy [17]- [23], physics [24], chemistry [25]- [30], biology [31], [32], cryptography [33], mathematics [34], [35], and computer science, [36]- [39]. These studies have provided firm experimental evidence that educational escape rooms can produce positive impacts on student engagement [8]- [14], [16]- [22], [25], [26], [28], [28]- [32], [34]- [38], [40] and learning [20], [21], [32], [37], [38], [40], both whey they are conducted face-to-face [8]- [14], [16]- [22], [25], [26], [28], [29], [31], [32], [34]- [37],…”