Nursing education becomes an interactive experience

NursEscape is a digital learning platform that brings interactive digital escape rooms into nursing education and the health professions.

NursEscape was developed by the Healthcare Innovation Laboratory, Department of Nursing, University of Thessaly, with the aim of creating a contemporary digital learning environment for nursing education. Through educational escape rooms and clinically oriented scenarios, learners are invited to apply their knowledge, connect information, solve problems and make decisions in a safe and interactive learning environment.

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Knowledge that becomes a decision

Nursing education is not only about acquiring knowledge, but also about being able to apply it across different clinical and educational contexts.

NursEscape was created to support this form of active learning. Through digital escape rooms, educational content is organized into coherent learning experiences in which scenario, information, problem solving, decisions and interaction are connected.

Digital escape rooms can be integrated into courses and learning activities, enabling instructors to organize assignments and learner groups and to follow progress and the outcomes of the learning process.

A complete learning environment

NursEscape provides the educational infrastructure around the interactive experience. The digital room remains the learning experience, while the platform supports organization, access and integration with the wider educational process.

For learners

Each learner can access only the activities assigned to them. They can begin a new attempt or, when supported, continue from where they stopped.

After completing the experience, learners can view available progress and result information. Where enabled by the assignment and where the relevant criteria are met, they may also receive a verifiable certificate of completion.

For instructors

Instructors can organize courses and groups, invite learners and create assignments linked to a digital escape room.

They can review available information such as attempts, completion, progress, scores and duration, as well as more detailed attempt-level data, and export available results for further educational review.

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How NursEscape works

1. Organize the activity

Create your course or learner group, invite participants and select the digital escape room you want to use.

2. Give learners an active learning experience

Inside the digital escape room, learners can explore the scenario, find and combine information, work through challenges and make decisions.

3. Follow progress and results

As learners take part in activities, NursEscape records, depending on the design of each activity, information such as progress, completion, scores and attempt duration.

Through these data, instructors can follow learners' progress and participation, gaining an overall view of the activity and, where needed, the progress of each learner individually.

4. Bring the experience back into teaching

Results can become a starting point for feedback, discussion, review or further educational use within the course.

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Complements the learning ecosystem

Not an LMS replacement

NursEscape is not intended to replace Moodle, eClass or another Learning Management System. Its focus is the delivery of stateful digital escape-room experiences, assignment-based access and the recording of the associated learning activity.

More than a conventional quiz format

Quizzes remain useful for many educational purposes. A digital escape room offers a different format: it can combine narrative, environment, clues, multimedia, sequencing and feedback within a single interactive experience.

Digital does not make physical escape rooms obsolete

Digital delivery can support remote access, repeatability, bilingual content, version control and consistent recording of activity. Physical escape rooms offer different strengths, including in-person interaction, shared physical presence and tactile experience.

Designed for academic use and collaboration

NursEscape was designed from the outset to support organized educational use across different academic and educational settings.

This allows an educational organization to use NursEscape within its own context while keeping users, content and learning activity organized.

The infrastructure provides a foundation for educational pilots and academic collaborations, with room to adapt educational content to the needs and objectives of each collaboration.

Interested in exploring how NursEscape could be used within your institution?

Contact us to discuss your educational context, objectives and the possibilities for a pilot deployment.

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An environment for education and research

NursEscape is designed so that, beyond its educational use, it can also support research in nursing education.

Depending on the design of each activity, the platform can record data reflecting different aspects of participation and learning progress, such as progress, completion, scores, attempt duration and selected interaction data.

This capability allows digital escape rooms to be used systematically within pilot studies, educational evaluations and research protocols. At the same time, each activity can be designed around specific research questions and learning objectives, connecting the learning experience with the data required for its evaluation.

In this way, NursEscape can serve not only as a learning environment, but also as infrastructure for studying and evaluating the use of digital escape rooms in nursing education, with the appropriate research-ethics and data-protection procedures in place.

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