Escape Passive Learning: 10 steps to Building an Escape Room

Escape rooms have become a popular way to engage students in active learning and provide innovative ways to learn. This article provides an overview of escape room use and outcomes from the higher education literature and describes their use at a large US midwestern college of nursing nurse practitioner program. Recommendations regarding design, implementation and evaluation are reviewed, and a 10-step process is shared to summarize how faculty can develop their escape room. (c) 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Escape rooms have gained popularity as an engaging educational tool in higher education. This article explores their use in a nurse practitioner program at a large Midwestern college of nursing and provides recommendations for design, implementation, and evaluation.