Workshop: Designing a Virtual Escape Room Course

Service Description

Turn learning into an immersive adventure. In this hands-on, five-week hybrid course, you’ll design, build, and facilitate a complete virtual escape room using AI tools, educational technology, game-based learning strategies, simulation principles, and web-based platforms. Live Zoom workshops and flexible online modules guide you through gamification, instructional design, storytelling, learner engagement, and interactive technology as you create your own playable educational experience. Build practical skills with AI-assisted design tools, website builders, interactive web applications, digital puzzles, simulation techniques, and collaborative learning strategies—and discover how to transform traditional instruction into memorable, game-based learning. Designed for professionals in healthcare, education, business, workforce development, and community training, this course equips you to create engaging virtual learning environments that strengthen critical thinking, teamwork, communication, and problem-solving. By the end of the course, you will be ready to: • Design a complete virtual escape room aligned with clear learning goals • Build an engaging, fully functional online experience • Use AI tools and interactive technologies with purpose and confidence • Apply proven instructional design, pedagogy, and simulation practices • Facilitate learner-centered gameplay that inspires collaboration • Create reusable educational assets for future courses and training programs Your five-week course includes: • Live weekly Zoom workshops with guided, hands-on instruction • Flexible, self-paced online modules • Complete access to course content and ready-to-use downloadable resources • A collaborative group project that brings your ideas to life • Practical guidance based on the Standards of Best Practice for Simulation Design • A certificate of completion to recognize your achievement