Creating an escape room activity to enrich students’ undergraduate management education

Abstract

Educational escape rooms are beneficial for student learning as it relates to critical thinking, decision making under time constraints and practical exploration of real-life work scenarios. This type of learning experience is beneficial across many disciplines with emphasis for healthcare management due to the dynamic nature and common pressures of professional healthcare. The following paper contributes to existing literature by presenting an educational escape room designed as a pedagogical innovation for teaching healthcare management. Future research and future assessment directives are discussed.

Keywords:

• Business education
• educational escape room
• healthcare management
• management
• organization
• staff development

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).