The IGLUE project aims to empower universities to create and conduct pedagogically sound educational escape rooms, as well as to promote the widespread use and adoption of such innovative learning activities across Europe in order to enhance students’ performance and engagement. The project involves activities aimed at overcoming the main barriers that currently hamper the adoption of educational escape rooms by providing teachers with the training and tools they need to effectively design, build, and conduct these learning activities.
The specific objectives of the IGLUE project are:
- Define a methodology for designing educational escape rooms.
- Provide teachers with digital tools and training to create educational escape rooms.
- Implement and assess educational escape rooms across European universities using the developed methodology and tools.
- Establish a European network dedicated to the creation, sharing and execution of educational escape rooms.
The project will have an initial phase in which a methodology for designing effective instructional interventions based on educational escape rooms will be defined. On this basis, a virtual platform for creating, conducting, and sharing educational escape rooms will be developed and deployed at each participating institution forming a European network of escape rooms. This network will be decentralized and open to new institutions. Then, materials and courses will be created and used to train teachers in the use of the methodology and the platform developed in the project.
Furthermore, a series of educational escape rooms will be created, conducted, and evaluated, which will be used not only to teach course-specific topics to students, but also to develop soft skills. These escape rooms will be used as pilot experiences to validate the proposed methodology and the developed technological solution in a wide range of higher education settings, including face-to-face and distance settings, as well as engineering and humanities courses. Lastly, multiplier events will be held in order to extend the reach and impact of the project to a wider audience involving educational institutions across all levels of education.
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