TY - JOUR
T1 - Escape boxes
T2 - Bringing escape room experience into the classroom
AU - Veldkamp, Alice
AU - Daemen, Joke
AU - Teekens, Stijn
AU - Koelewijn, Stefan
AU - Knippels, Marie Christine P.J.
AU - van Joolingen, Wouter R.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge the U-talent schools, their teachers and 134 pupils who tested the boxes. Special thanks to the students who participated: Erik Boddeus, Laura Chow, Lopamudra Das, Thijs Duijvenbode, Patrick Klaassen, Rebecca Niese, Jim Vollebregt. Also, the colleagues from the department Instrumentation who realized the designs; Marcel van Asselen and Jody Wisman. This work has been cofounded by the Dutch government, grant agreement nr. FBW 15-1190 & 16-1010; ?De Werfkracht van het leraarschap in de b?tavakken.?
Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge the U‐talent schools, their teachers and 134 pupils who tested the boxes. Special thanks to the students who participated: Erik Boddeus, Laura Chow, Lopamudra Das, Thijs Duijvenbode, Patrick Klaassen, Rebecca Niese, Jim Vollebregt. Also, the colleagues from the department Instrumentation who realized the designs; Marcel van Asselen and Jody Wisman. This work has been cofounded by the Dutch government, grant agreement nr. FBW 15‐1190 & 16‐1010; “De Werfkracht van het leraarschap in de bètavakken.”
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht University. British Journal of Educational Technology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Educational Research Association
PY - 2020/7/1
Y1 - 2020/7/1
N2 - In this paper, we present an escape box as a means to introduce the escape room concept into classrooms. Recreational escape rooms have inspired teachers all over the world to adapt the popular entertainment activity for education. Escape rooms are problem-based and time-constrained, requiring active and collaborative participants, a setting that teachers want to achieve in their classroom to promote learning. This paper explores the adaptation of the escape room concept into educational escape game boxes. These technology-enhanced escape boxes have become hybrid learning spaces, merging individual and collaborative learning, as well as physical and digital spaces. The design of the box with assignments on each side puts users face to face with each other and requires them to collaborate in the physical world, instead of being individually absorbed in a digital world. The developed box is a unique concept in the field of escape rooms; the content is adaptable. This paper describes the process leading to the design criteria, the design process, test results and evaluation, and provides recommendations for designing educational escape rooms.
AB - In this paper, we present an escape box as a means to introduce the escape room concept into classrooms. Recreational escape rooms have inspired teachers all over the world to adapt the popular entertainment activity for education. Escape rooms are problem-based and time-constrained, requiring active and collaborative participants, a setting that teachers want to achieve in their classroom to promote learning. This paper explores the adaptation of the escape room concept into educational escape game boxes. These technology-enhanced escape boxes have become hybrid learning spaces, merging individual and collaborative learning, as well as physical and digital spaces. The design of the box with assignments on each side puts users face to face with each other and requires them to collaborate in the physical world, instead of being individually absorbed in a digital world. The developed box is a unique concept in the field of escape rooms; the content is adaptable. This paper describes the process leading to the design criteria, the design process, test results and evaluation, and provides recommendations for designing educational escape rooms.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85082976996&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/bjet.12935
DO - 10.1111/bjet.12935
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85082976996
VL - 51
SP - 1220
EP - 1239
JO - British journal of educational technology
JF - British journal of educational technology
SN - 0007-1013
IS - 4
ER -