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The guidelines emphasize the importance of preparing for the escape room experience, creating professional development as well as pre- and post-sessions where teaching staff learn about new pedagogies and discuss their experiences, and more importantly show how to use them to improve academic performance, prepare students for the future, and enhance collaboration with others.
This pedagogical framework discusses the affordances and limitations of the Escape Room experience and assists implementation that maximises active and engaged learning and ensures alignment with curriculum and learning outcomes.
Video Resources
Bernardo Pereira Nunes of the Australian National University offers tips on how to get started on an escape room experience that will boost students’ teamwork, leadership, communication and problem solving.
ANU Escape Room is designing new Escape Room riddles for domains outside of advanced computing, such as epidemiology and emergency medicine, as the Escape Room welcomes other disciplines on the ANU campus as well as industry partners.
One room, 60 minutes, five puzzles and the only way out is to solve them. That’s the challenge facing students at the ANU School of Computing.
An Escape Room designed by Dr Bernardo Pereira Nunes aims to teach computational thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration while having a bit of fun.