Digital Educational Escape Room Analysis Using Learning Styles

Gené, Oriol Borrás; Díez, Raquel Montes; Macías-Guillén, Almudena

doi:10.3390/info13110522

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“…Different from other EERs, which are designed in real environments with physical challenges (Boysen-Osborn et al, 2018;Gómez-Urquiza et al, 2019;Williams, 2018), and those where the challenges are purely virtual, allowing students to participate from any location (Borrás-Gené et al, 2022;Daza & Fernández-Sánchez, 2019;López-Pernas et al, 2019), the EER experience presented here integrates both analogic and digital execution features. This blend of EER execution styles is referred to in this study as a hybrid EER.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Hybrid Escape Room to Foster Motivation and Programming Education for Pre-Service Teachers

Borrás-Gené,

Hijón-Neira,

Paredes-Barragán

et al. 2024

International Journal of Game-Based Learning

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Educational escape rooms aims to motivate students, to strengthen knowledge and evaluate learning. Pre-service teachers enrolled in “Computer Science and Digital Competency” course shows lack of motivation and difficulties to realise its usefulness in everyday practice, becoming an ideal context to apply this strategy. 157 students belonging to a European university participated in the experience as case study. The educational escape room was conducted following a hybrid model, mixing a physical organization of props with a virtual organization of the narrative, tests and achievements. The experiment was designed to answer two hypotheses, first if applying escape room as an educational strategy fosters pre-primary and primary students' motivation, since this method address complex concepts in a practical way, and second, if the application of this strategy as teaching strategy makes students perceive the learning process as a game.

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A Hybrid Escape Room to Foster Motivation and Programming Education for Pre-Service Teachers

Borrás-Gené,

Hijón-Neira,

Paredes-Barragán

et al. 2024

International Journal of Game-Based Learning

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“…The team-based escape room activity is, in essence, an active and cooperative learning approach. This approach is anchored on the social constructivist theory, which posits that the construction of knowledge occurs through social interaction and with the help of others. ,, Educational escape rooms require students to work through challenges in an enclosed environment and solve puzzles under time pressure before they can escape, providing students with novel and unique learning experiences. − …”

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Escape the Desert Island: Blended Escape Rooms in the First-Semester Problem-Based Learning

Rahim

2023

J. Chem. Educ.

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Educational escape rooms are immersive puzzlebased games that rely on teamwork skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication. This paper describes the development of desert island themed escape rooms in a blended learning environment using physical and online puzzles that were hosted on Genially. The blended escape rooms were designed to introduce terms and concepts in pharmaceutical chemistry of drugs to first-year students while breaking the ice by fostering rapport, camaraderie, and teamwork at the beginning of their first-semester problem-based learning (PBL) session. Game designs, pitfalls, logistics, and costs involved in developing these blended escape rooms are described in detail. Student feedback indicated that the games were effective in reviewing information related to the PBL and helped them feel more confident before starting the PBL session.

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“…Digital escape rooms can be used to support a variety of learning objectives, from teaching basic concepts to reinforcing complex theories and applications [5]. Digital escape rooms can be customized to meet the specific needs and interests of different age groups, subject areas, and learning styles [6]. For example, they can be designed to teach coding skills [7], web page design [8], software engineering [9], entrepreneurship [10], electronics [11], aerospace engineering [12], biology [13], chemistry [14][15][16], language [17], and mathematics [18][19][20][21], among other topics.…”

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Out-of-the-Box Learning: Digital Escape Rooms as a Metaphor for Breaking Down Barriers in STEM Education

Sidekerskienė

Damaševičius

2023

Sustainability

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The traditional lecture-based model of teaching and learning has led to the exploration of innovative approaches including digital escape rooms. Digital escape rooms offer an immersive and engaging experience that promotes critical thinking, problem-solving, and teamwork, making them a unique opportunity to address the challenges of STEM education, which is often perceived as difficult, boring, and intimidating. In this study, the goal is to explore the application of digital escape rooms as an innovative practice in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) education in Europe. More specifically, the study aims to evaluate the influence of digital escape rooms on student engagement and learning outcomes in mathematics education as well as to provide valuable insights into the efficacy of this approach as a means of teaching mathematics and fostering active and experiential learning in STEAM education. In order to investigate the potential of digital escape rooms as a metaphor for breaking down barriers and escaping from the ”box” in STEM education, this paper proposes a conceptual framework for understanding the pedagogical value of digital escape rooms in STEM education. It outlines the design process, including learning paths and scenarios, storyline, puzzles, challenges, and feedback mechanisms, and presents a concept of escape room design patterns. An example case study of a digital escape room designed to teach mathematics to university students is also presented, providing insights into the effectiveness of this approach. By using digital escape rooms as a metaphor for breaking down barriers in STEM education, a more inclusive, engaging, and impactful learning environment can be created to prepare students for the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.

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Digital Educational Escape Room Analysis Using Learning Styles

Cited by 8 publications

References 31 publications

A Hybrid Escape Room to Foster Motivation and Programming Education for Pre-Service Teachers

A Hybrid Escape Room to Foster Motivation and Programming Education for Pre-Service Teachers

Escape the Desert Island: Blended Escape Rooms in the First-Semester Problem-Based Learning

Out-of-the-Box Learning: Digital Escape Rooms as a Metaphor for Breaking Down Barriers in STEM Education

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