Abstract
Confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic has hastened an educational shift from face-to-face to online classrooms. This distanced education seeks to achieve learning goals mediated by technology as they would be achieved in the face-to-face classroom, without ignoring the psychological and social impact that COVID-19 has had on students and teachers. Faced with this situation, the use of online educational escape rooms has been proposed as a motivating strategy for students to review curriculum content in a cooperative and fun way. A qualitative investigation was carried out to explore the perceptions of university students in the Social Education degree program after the implementation of an educational escape room. Our main findings are that most students found that it allowed them to interact with their peers beyond traditional education, that it was useful for their learning and that it was a pleasant activity. However, it was also mentioned that it can be a stressful activity as being an online activity, some students may have connectivity problems. It is concluded that online escape rooms can be active and effective learning strategies for university students.
Highlights
During the period of health emergency and confinement caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the educational system from early childhood education to university education has had to adapt its face-to-face methodology to an online methodology in a hasty and forced manner [1]
We proposed a qualitative research study that explores the reflections of university students in educational sciences on the use of escape rooms to review curricular content during the confinement of COVID-19
The objective of this research was to analyze the perception of the students of the Social Education degree program on the use of educational escape rooms during the 2019–2020 academic year
Summary
During the period of health emergency and confinement caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the educational system from early childhood education to university education has had to adapt its face-to-face methodology to an online methodology in a hasty and forced manner [1]. The witnessing of a global pandemic and the confinement have been a challenge for the mental health of both teachers and students due to increased feelings of uncertainty, stress, and anxiety [3]. These feelings can create unfavorable effects on learning and psychological health [4]. Escape rooms are an innovative and playful educational strategy that is increasingly incorporated into education and research Their main benefit is that they can facilitate motivation toward learning through playful challenges
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