Can You Escape? Using Escape Mobile App Games to Teach Experiential Learning Online

Keywords: Experiential learning, online education, learning styles

Abstract: Mobile app escape games are excellent tools to teach experiential learning in an online context. Through the act of solving puzzles to escape the rooms, students will directly experience a learning process in which they need to discover new information and clues, adjust their strategies repeatedly, and become more aware of the way they learn. Escape games are versatile and can be used in any kind of classrooms (online asynchronous, online synchronous, hybrid, in-person) with any population of students (undergraduate, graduate, continuing education).