TY - JOUR
T1 - Can Students Create Their Own Educational Escape Room?
T2 - Lessons Learned from the Opioid Crisis Escape Room
AU - Bakkum, Michiel J
AU - Richir, Milan C
AU - Sultan, Rowan
AU - de la Court, Jara R
AU - Lambooij, Anke C
AU - van Agtmael, Michiel A
AU - Tichelaar, Jelle
N1 - Funding Information: The authors would like to thank the students that participated in this project for their helpful evaluations and useful contributions to the escape room. Publisher Copyright: © 2021, The Author(s).
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - Educational escape rooms (EERs) are live-action, team-based games used to teach content-related and generic knowledge and skills. Instead of students just playing the EER, we believed that giving them the opportunity to create their own EERs would augment the learning effects of this teaching method. We report on the feasibility, evaluation, and lessons learned of our assignment on an opioid epidemic-based EER. This original teaching method appealed to most students, but the workload was evaluated to be too high. Our lessons learned include the need for sufficient (extrinsic) motivation, careful explanation of the assignment, and small group sizes.
AB - Educational escape rooms (EERs) are live-action, team-based games used to teach content-related and generic knowledge and skills. Instead of students just playing the EER, we believed that giving them the opportunity to create their own EERs would augment the learning effects of this teaching method. We report on the feasibility, evaluation, and lessons learned of our assignment on an opioid epidemic-based EER. This original teaching method appealed to most students, but the workload was evaluated to be too high. Our lessons learned include the need for sufficient (extrinsic) motivation, careful explanation of the assignment, and small group sizes.
KW - Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
KW - Educational escape room
KW - Serious gaming
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85117102476&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-021-01425-5
DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-021-01425-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 34950526
SN - 2156-8650
VL - 31
SP - 1739
EP - 1745
JO - Medical Science Educator
JF - Medical Science Educator
IS - 6
ER -