Exploring the Landscape of Digital Educational Escape Rooms

Abstract

This chapter presented a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of the academic literature on digital educational escape rooms (DEER). The analysis utilized the PRISMA protocol to identify scientific articles from major indexing databases. It explored various aspects, including research authors, countries, document types, keywords, and subject areas. Through this analysis, it became evident that there was a growing interest in publishing and citing studies on DEER. The surge in popularity of DEERs during the COVID-19 pandemic was noteworthy, as they emerged as effective pedagogical strategies in response to the challenges posed by the pandemic. These escape rooms were employed as alternative methods to enhance learning outcomes across various educational domains. To further advance the field, future research was suggested to delve deeper into the existing literature and explore different devices, platforms, and educational domains where DEERs were being applied. Other potential undertakings relevant to the results of this chapter were also discussed.