Room escape at class: escape games activities to facilitate the motivation and learning in computer science

Real-life room-escape games are ludic activities in which participants enter a room in order to get out of it only after solving some riddles. In this paper, we explain a Room Escape teaching experience developed in the Engineering School at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The goal of this activi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Borrego, Carlos, Fernández, Cristina, Blanes, Ian, Robles, Sergi
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/105731
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/105731
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Motivation in education--Study and teaching
Computer science--Study and teaching
Room escape
Riddles
Gamification
Computer science
Ensenyament universitari
Motivació en l'educació
Informàtica -- Ensenyament universitari
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ensenyament i aprenentatge::Ensenyament universitari
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ensenyament i aprenentatge::Metodologies docents
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Sumario:Real-life room-escape games are ludic activities in which participants enter a room in order to get out of it only after solving some riddles. In this paper, we explain a Room Escape teaching experience developed in the Engineering School at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The goal of this activity is to increase student’s motivation and to improve their learning on two courses of the second year in the Computer Engineering degree: Computer Networksand Information and Security