Rachelle O’Brien and Nicola Whitton talk about playful learning and virtual escape rooms on episode 402 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Be open to putting yourself in a position to try something that can potentially fail.

-Rachelle O’Brien

Have an idea that you can explain in a sentence. If it goes beyond that, it is probably too complex.

-Rachelle O’Brien

• PlayThinkLearn
  
• Eduscapes
  
• Episode 397 with Audrey Watters: Teaching Machines
  
• Episode 72 with Robert Bjork: How to Use Cognitive Psychology to Enhance Learning
  
• What is a Game, by Bernard Suit
  

• Education Burrito – unwrapping the ‘fun in games’
  
• O’Brien, R, E., & Farrow, S (2020). Escaping the inactive classroom: Escape Rooms for teaching technology. Journal for Social Media in Higher Education.
  
• O’Brien, R, E. (2020). The Great Escape – Escape Rooms for Learning and Teaching. Durham University.
  
• O’Brien, R, E. (2021). Finding creativity and taming the online activity beast. AdvanceHE.
  
• Using games in Teaching
  
• My journey to the end of the course (DEIDGBL)