Educational Escape Rooms as an Active Learning Tool for Teaching Telecommunications Engineering

Educational Escape Rooms as an Active Learning Tool for Teaching Telecommunications Engineering

Traditional education, particularly at a university level is not necessarily very engaging. Educational escape rooms are a recent game based learning approach which combines team based problem solving with a story-line and cryptic clues. In this paper, we apply the concept of educational escape room...

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Main Authors: Robert Ross, Anthony de Souza-Daw
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-04-01
Series:Telecom
Subjects:
telecommunications education
active learning
educational escape rooms
modulation
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4001/2/2/10
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spelling doaj-f0a051fb27314a3a80747b8120832e212021-04-01T23:07:20ZengMDPI AGTelecom2673-40012021-04-0121015516610.3390/telecom2020010Educational Escape Rooms as an Active Learning Tool for Teaching Telecommunications EngineeringRobert Ross0Anthony de Souza-Daw1Department of Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086, AustraliaInformation Technology, Melbourne Polytechnic, Melbourne, VIC 3072, AustraliaTraditional education, particularly at a university level is not necessarily very engaging. Educational escape rooms are a recent game based learning approach which combines team based problem solving with a story-line and cryptic clues. In this paper, we apply the concept of educational escape rooms to the telecommunications engineering classroom by creating a series of two separate scenarios, each containing three puzzles. Our evaluation is based on survey results from telecommunication experts which suggest that this will be an engaging and challenging tool for teaching telecommunications engineering. Although educational escape rooms are rapidly being deployed in education, these are the first educational escape rooms that specifically addresses the field of telecommunications engineering.https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4001/2/2/10telecommunications educationactive learningeducational escape roomsmodulation
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active learning
educational escape rooms
modulation
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title Educational Escape Rooms as an Active Learning Tool for Teaching Telecommunications Engineering
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title_full Educational Escape Rooms as an Active Learning Tool for Teaching Telecommunications Engineering
title_fullStr Educational Escape Rooms as an Active Learning Tool for Teaching Telecommunications Engineering
title_full_unstemmed Educational Escape Rooms as an Active Learning Tool for Teaching Telecommunications Engineering
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description Traditional education, particularly at a university level is not necessarily very engaging. Educational escape rooms are a recent game based learning approach which combines team based problem solving with a story-line and cryptic clues. In this paper, we apply the concept of educational escape rooms to the telecommunications engineering classroom by creating a series of two separate scenarios, each containing three puzzles. Our evaluation is based on survey results from telecommunication experts which suggest that this will be an engaging and challenging tool for teaching telecommunications engineering. Although educational escape rooms are rapidly being deployed in education, these are the first educational escape rooms that specifically addresses the field of telecommunications engineering.
topic telecommunications education
active learning
educational escape rooms
modulation
url https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4001/2/2/10
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