The BSU College of Health and CAP’s IDIA Lab were honored with a national award for their collaborative virtual escape room project. The serious game, “The Case of the Kidnapped Healthcare Professionals: Virtual Escape Room” was selected to receive the 2023 Creativity in Practice and Education Award from the National Academies of Practice (NAP). BSU’s Lori Porter accepted the award on behalf of the project team Karrie Osborne, PhD, RN, Blair Mattern, John Fillwalk, IDIA staff and Katherine Berryhill for their work in developing the project.
Escape rooms employ innovative learning strategies such as problem-based immersive learning, role-play, and game principles to improve teamwork, communication and leadership. Nationally, health profession curricula are beginning to explore the use of escape room experiences as innovative pedagogy. Escape rooms challenge individuals to collaboratively explore new content, work as a team to discover clues, solve puzzles, and accomplish interactive tasks in a limited amount of time.