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Article

Online Escape Room during COVID-19: A Qualitative Study of Social Education Degree Students’ Experiences

by
Ana Manzano-León
,
José Manuel Aguilar-Parra
*,
José M. Rodríguez-Ferrer
*,
Rubén Trigueros
,
Rocío Collado-Soler
,
Cristina Méndez-Aguado
,
María Jesús García-Hernández
and
Laura Molina-Alonso
Department of Psychology, University of Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain
*
Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Educ. Sci. 2021, 11(8), 426; https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11080426
Submission received: 22 July 2021 / Revised: 9 August 2021 / Accepted: 10 August 2021 / Published: 12 August 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Game-Based Learning and Gamification for Education)
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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.
Keywords: escape room; educative innovation; cooperative learning; higher education escape room; educative innovation; cooperative learning; higher education

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Manzano-León, A.; Aguilar-Parra, J.M.; Rodríguez-Ferrer, J.M.; Trigueros, R.; Collado-Soler, R.; Méndez-Aguado, C.; García-Hernández, M.J.; Molina-Alonso, L. Online Escape Room during COVID-19: A Qualitative Study of Social Education Degree Students’ Experiences. Educ. Sci. 2021, 11, 426. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11080426

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Manzano-León A, Aguilar-Parra JM, Rodríguez-Ferrer JM, Trigueros R, Collado-Soler R, Méndez-Aguado C, García-Hernández MJ, Molina-Alonso L. Online Escape Room during COVID-19: A Qualitative Study of Social Education Degree Students’ Experiences. Education Sciences. 2021; 11(8):426. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11080426

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Manzano-León, Ana, José Manuel Aguilar-Parra, José M. Rodríguez-Ferrer, Rubén Trigueros, Rocío Collado-Soler, Cristina Méndez-Aguado, María Jesús García-Hernández, and Laura Molina-Alonso. 2021. "Online Escape Room during COVID-19: A Qualitative Study of Social Education Degree Students’ Experiences" Education Sciences 11, no. 8: 426. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11080426

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Manzano-León, A., Aguilar-Parra, J. M., Rodríguez-Ferrer, J. M., Trigueros, R., Collado-Soler, R., Méndez-Aguado, C., García-Hernández, M. J., & Molina-Alonso, L. (2021). Online Escape Room during COVID-19: A Qualitative Study of Social Education Degree Students’ Experiences. Education Sciences, 11(8), 426. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11080426

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