A Guide to Designing Educational Escape Rooms with Educational Technology

Abstract

Do you love escape rooms? Love the thrill of solving complex problems and successfully escaping the challenge and feeling smarter than you ever did? Why not bring this experience into the classroom or staff meeting? But maybe you don't know where to begin. After creating numerous escape rooms I wanted to share my experiences with others by creating this guide to walk you through the steps on how to create an escape room using educational technology tools your institution already has without costing a fortune. Imagine using an escape room as an ice breaker on the first day of class to get students to go through the course syllabus or learning management system and actually find important due dates on assignments and the process to submit work? Or use an escape room to review concepts before an exam? Perhaps you've created a very large but very important document for your staff and want to ensure they read it- wouldn't it be fun to get them to do an escape room so they actually read through the document? The sky is the limit!