Improvements and needs of an educational escape room in initial teacher training | Mejoras y necesidades de una escape room educativa en la formación inicial de docentes

Abstract

ResumenLas habitaciones de escape educativas son una estrategia metodológica emergente en la educación superior, lo cual conlleva un diseño minucioso de la propuesta de innovación. A través del presente trabajo se recogen y se analizan las principales necesidades que han reflejado los participantes de «JUMANTIC», una educational escape room para estudiantes de los Grados de Educación Infantil y Primaria de la Universidad de Murcia para asignaturas de Tecnología Educativa. Se aplicó un cuestionario Ad Hoc, a partir del cual se genera una red semántica con Atlas.ti V.8., de la que se extraen 4 categorías, 17 códigos libres y se analizan 79 unidades textuales. Finalmente, los resultados evidencian otros factores complementarios a los ya referenciados. Por lo tanto, este trabajo expone que es es necesario valorar otros aspectos como el espacio, la temperatura, la agrupación, etc. para así garantizar un óptimo diseño e implementación de una propuesta de innovación basada en una habitación de escape educativa.AbstractEducational escape rooms are an emerging methodological strategy in Higher Education, which entails a thorough design of the innovation proposal. Through this work, the main needs that the participants of «JUMANTIC», an educational escape room for students of the Grades of Infant and Primary Education of the University of Murcia for subjects of Educational Technology are collected and analyzed. An Ad Hoc questionnaire was applied, from which a semantic network with Atlas.ti V.8. Is generated, from which 4 categories, 17 free codes are extracted and 79 text units are analyzed. Finally, the results show other factors complementary to those already referenced. Therefore, this work exposes that it is necessary to assess other aspects such as space, temperature, grouping, etc. in order to guarantee an optimal design and implementation of an innovation proposal based on an educational escape room.

Learning through Challenges and Enigmas: Educational Escape Room as a Predictive Experience of Motivation in University Students

“…The justification for this selection is based on the fact that the researchers have taken as study subjects the students participating in the gamified educational escape room experience. As has been shown in other impact research [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] and as described in the following sections, the sample and the reliability obtained in this study are adequate for the type of analysis presented.…”

“…In order to motivate students towards learning, gamification through the escape room emerges as one of the most innovative techniques in the current educational context [17,18]. Educational escape rooms are games whose objective is that several teams of students manage to remove themselves from an enclosed space in which a disturbing event is going to happen [19]. Each group of students must cooperate to solve the riddles that lead to the codes or keys that will unlock the door within a time given by the teacher.…”

¿El BREAKOUT o Escape Room un recurso viable para la Educación Infantil?

“…Además, se ha constatado que el rol docente es primordial para esta tipología de prácticas (García-Lázaro, 2019;García-Tudela et al, 2020), dado que actuaran como guía del aprendizaje con unas pautas a seguir muy claras (Bellattli y Sabido-Codina, 2021). Se necesita marcar unas pautas claras para su óptima ejecución, por ejemplo, en el presente Breakout EDU se tendría que haber escuchado conjuntamente el primer audio, así como haber preparado a los estudiantes antes de iniciar el recurso ludificcado.…”

Gamifying the university classroom: a comparative analysis of game dimensions through educational Escape Room and a digital board game

“…Although Escape Rooms in physical environments offer more opportunities to collaborate than virtual environments (Ang and Liew, 2020), in both cases there are benefits for learning (Morrell and Ball, 2019) and improvements in academic motivation (González-Yubero et al, 2023) and performance of university students (Brady and Andersen, 2021). In the context of Higher Education, educational Escape Rooms are becoming an innovative methodological tool applied to various branches of knowledge, since proposals have been implemented in Health Sciences (Nybo et al, 2020), Engineering (De la Flor et al, 2020, or Education (García-Tudela et al, 2020) degrees, among others.…”