Escape ROOM?!? Try Escaping the Building…

Matthew Petrocelli, PhD

Abstract

An escape room experience can be frantic, frustrating, exciting, confusing and exhilarating. Imagine invoking those emotions over a larger experience. Instead of a single room, now students must escape the entire College of Business. This paper discusses a cross- urriculum effort to incorporate the drama and fun of an escape room in a larger format. The approach is applicable individually or on a group basis. Further, the approach is implemented in a learning management system (Blackboard Ultra) so can support assessment for competency-focused objectives.

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