Escaping the Classroom: Designing Digital Escape Rooms for Learning

Escape rooms require players to complete tasks, retrieve clues, and solve puzzles in order to escape a locked room. Digital escape rooms function much like their physical counterparts except they take place entirely online. Because digital escape rooms don’t require any physical equipment, they have become a popular way for instructors to engage their students online. In this webinar, participants engage in a live, digital escape room and learn how to design their own by brainstorming the concept, creating the puzzles, setting up the virtual environment, and testing the game. No matter your skill level, you will leave this webinar with the tools needed to create an engaging digital escape room for your students.

By the end of this workshop, participants know or will be able to:

• Learn how to align escape rooms with existing curriculum and student learning outcomes.
• Learn best practices for using digital escape rooms in the classroom.
• Gain the skills and knowledge to create engaging digital escape rooms that promote student collaboration, critical thinking, and problem-solving.

To register for this webinar, create your NISOD account. Once your NISOD and OTC accounts are linked, you’ll be able to register for available webinars free of charge!