Escape Games: Educational Breakout

Escape Games: Educational Breakout

Goals

The general objective of this course is to provide teachers with the necessary strategies to create gamification spaces in the classroom, with the aim of promoting students' social and mental skills through solving puzzles and tests. In addition, the most appropriate resources and evaluation criteria for this work methodology will be taught. In short, the main objective of the course is to learn how to create an educational breakout.
This general objective is specified in a series of specific objectives:
• Know what an educational breakout is and its main characteristics: Participants will learn to define and understand the concept of an educational breakout and its main characteristics.
• Study the basics of gamification: Participants will study the basics of gamification, which is the foundation of the educational breakout.
• Distinguish the main steps to follow to create an educational breakout: Participants will learn to identify and follow the main steps to create an educational breakout.
• Learn about the different tests and clues that can be used in educational breakouts: Participants will learn to identify and use different tests and clues in educational breakouts.
• Analyze and create examples of educational breakouts at different stages: Participants will have the opportunity to analyze and create examples of educational breakouts for different educational stages.
• Learn how to create a digital breakout using Google tools: Participants will learn how to use various Google tools to create a digital breakout.
By the end of the course, participants will have gained a solid understanding of how breakout games can be used to enhance teaching and learning. They will be equipped with the skills and knowledge to integrate educational breakout into their teaching practice effectively and safely.

Escape Games: Educational Breakout

What it prepares you for

The “University Specialization Course in Escape Games: Educational Breakout” can open several professional opportunities, mainly in the field of education:

Innovative Teacher: This course prepares you to be a teacher who uses innovative methods in the classroom. You will be able to apply gamification and educational escape games to improve teaching and learning.
Educational Game Designer: With the knowledge acquired in this course, you could design and develop your own educational escape games, both physical and digital.
Gamification Consultant: You could work as a gamification consultant, helping schools and other educators implement gamification and escape games in their classrooms.
Teacher trainer: You could provide training to other teachers on how to use gamification and escape games in teaching.
These are just some of the possibilities. Gamification and educational escape games are fast-growing areas in education, so this course could open many doors for you in the future. Remember that the key is how you apply the knowledge you have acquired in your professional context.

Escape Games: Educational Breakout

Who is it addressed to?

The “University Specialization Course in Escape Games: Educational Breakout” is mainly aimed at:

Teachers: This course is ideal for teachers who are looking to innovate their teaching methods and are interested in gamification and educational escape games.

Education Professionals: Professionals working in the field of education who wish to incorporate new strategies to improve student learning can also benefit from this course.

Educational Game Designers: Those who are interested in educational game design and want to learn more about how escape games can be used in an educational context.

Student teachers or education students: Students who are studying to become teachers and wish to expand their skills and knowledge in innovative teaching methods.

In short, this course is aimed at anyone who is interested in gamification and educational escape games and wants to learn how to implement them in an educational environment. However, it is especially relevant for teachers and other educational professionals.

Escape Games: Educational Breakout

Methodology

The course methodology is based on 100% online learning, through the Aula_SMART virtual campus, an innovative and easy-to-use platform that will allow you to access all the course content and resources from any location and device. The course has a highly specialized teaching team, made up of education professionals with extensive experience and training in the analysis of teaching skills. They will accompany and guide you throughout the learning process, through personalized tutoring by phone, chat, email and even videoconference. The teaching method is completely multidisciplinary, as it combines different pedagogical approaches and strategies, such as:

- Theoretical content, where the fundamental concepts and principles of the analysis of teaching competencies will be presented, as well as the normative and reference frameworks that regulate them.
- Practical content, where theoretical knowledge will be applied to real or simulated cases of educational practice, using tools and methodologies to evaluate and develop teaching skills.
- Self-assessment activities, where teachers will reflect on their own teaching performance and on areas of strength and improvement, as well as on strategies to enhance them.
- Collaborative learning activities, where the exchange of experiences, opinions and proposals will be encouraged through forums.

In this way, the course methodology offers you dynamic, participatory training adapted to your needs and interests, which prepares you to be a competent and effective teacher, capable of adapting to the demands and challenges of today's education.

Escape Games: Educational Breakout

Official character

Valid for scoring in the teaching opposition scale according to RD 276/2007 of February 23 and for the scale corresponding to the state-wide transfer competition, according to Royal Decree 1364/2010 of October 29.

This training is not included in the scope of official regulated training (Early Childhood Education, Primary Education, Secondary Education, Official Vocational Training FP, Baccalaureate, University Degree, Official University Master's Degree and Doctorate). It is therefore a complementary and/or specialization training, aimed at the acquisition of certain competences, skills or aptitudes of a professional nature, and may be scored as merit in job banks and/or competitive examinations, always within the section of Complementary Training and/or Continuing Training, always being essential to review the specific scoring requirements of the specific public job bank to which we wish to apply.

Escape Games: Educational Breakout

Qualification

Homologable for competitive examinations

The continuing education courses are valid for scoring in the teaching competition scale, having a minimum duration of 125 hours (5 ECTS credits), to contribute up to a maximum of 2 POINTS in the "Other merits" section that are included in all the Calls for Competitions in the Spanish territory, according to RD 276/2007 of February 23 (BOE 2/3/2007) on Access to the Teaching Civil Service. These courses are also valid for the scale corresponding to the state-wide transfer competition, according to Royal Decree 1364/2010 of October 29.

The duration of the courses in Catalonia must not exceed 10 hours per week and in Castilla y León 20 hours per week in order to be taken into account in their entirety according to the latest published bulletins (DOGC No. 6205 of 3/9/2012 and BOCYL No. 241 of 16/12/2014), so we have adapted the period of their completion.