LUOVA – using online escape rooms to build creative thinking skills.
During recent years, there has been a worldwide growth in the use of educational escape rooms in both physical and digital learning environments.
They represent an innovative way to bring technology and critical thinking into the learning environment, and the benefits are twofold:
● games have a history of promoting engagement in a learning environment even among those for whom formal education has failed
● the collaborative elements help students develop social and team-working skills.
“Escape rooms are unlike other forms of games where the player controls an avatar; in escape room challenges the student is placed directly into the game and as a result, the effects of experiential learning are more effective” (The Rise of Educational Escape Rooms, University of Ohio, 2016).