Playful Learning and Virtual Escape Rooms

Rachelle O’Brien and Nicola Whitton talk about playful learning and virtual escape rooms on episode 402 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Be open to putting yourself in a position to try something that can potentially fail.
-Rachelle O’Brien

Have an idea that you can explain in a sentence. If it goes beyond that, it is probably too complex.
-Rachelle O’Brien

Resources

• PlayThinkLearn
• Eduscapes
• Episode 397 with Audrey Watters: Teaching Machines
• Episode 72 with Robert Bjork: How to Use Cognitive Psychology to Enhance Learning
• What is a Game, by Bernard Suit

• Education Burrito – unwrapping the ‘fun in games’
• O’Brien, R, E., & Farrow, S (2020). Escaping the inactive classroom: Escape Rooms for teaching technology. Journal for Social Media in Higher Education.
• O’Brien, R, E. (2020). The Great Escape – Escape Rooms for Learning and Teaching. Durham University.
• O’Brien, R, E. (2021). Finding creativity and taming the online activity beast. AdvanceHE.
• Using games in Teaching
• My journey to the end of the course (DEIDGBL)