Educational Escape Rooms as an Active Learning Tool for Teaching Telecommunications Engineering
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Traditional education, particularly at a university level is not necessarily very engaging. Educational escape rooms are a recent game based learning approach which combines team based problem solving with a story-line and cryptic clues. In this paper, we apply the concept of educational escape rooms to the telecommunications engineering classroom by creating a series of two separate scenarios, each containing three puzzles. Our evaluation is based on survey results from telecommunication experts which suggest that this will be an engaging and challenging tool for teaching telecommunications engineering. Although educational escape rooms are rapidly being deployed in education, these are the first educational escape rooms that specifically addresses the field of telecommunications engineering.
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Educational escape activities (EEAs) have shown great value in terms of engagement, motivation, and learner outcomes.
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- Authors
- Ross, R., & de Souza-Daw, A.
- Affiliations
- La Trobe University (AU)
- Information Technology, Melbourne Polytechnic, Melbourne, VIC 3072, Australia
- Corresponding author
- Ross, Robert
- Venue
- Telecom
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2021-04-01
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 155-166
- ISSN
- 2673-4001 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3150420933
- Cited by
- 10
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 2.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Telecom (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Preprints.org (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- La Trobe University
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Educational Games and Gamification
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Architecture › Engineering Education and Pedagogy
- Social Sciences › Education › Problem and Project Based Learning
- Keywords
- educational escape rooms, game-based learning, active learning, telecommunications education, team-based problem solving, puzzles, student engagement, expert evaluation
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