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Educational Escape Rooms as an Active Learning Tool for Teaching Telecommunications Engineering

Year: 2021

Type: article

Abstract: Traditional education, particularly at a university level isn’t necessarily very engaging1 or strong at building teamwork skills. Educational escape rooms are a recent game based learning2 approach which combines team based problem solving with a story-line and cryptic clues. In this3 paper we apply the concept of educational escape rooms to the telecommunications engineering4 classroombycreatingaseriesoftwoseparatescenarios,eachcontainingthreepuzzles. Ourevaluation5 is based on beta tester survey results which suggest that this will be an engaging and challenging6 tool for teaching telecommunications engineering. Although educational escape rooms are rapidly7 being deployed in education, these are the ﬁrst educational escape rooms that speciﬁcally addresses8 the ﬁeld of telecommunications engineering.

Source: Telecom

DOI: 10.3390/telecom2020010

Authors: Robert Ross, Anthony de Souza-Daw

Institutions: La Trobe University, Melbourne Polytechnic

Language: English

Topic: Educational Games and Gamification

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,080