UNLOCK previews the organization of national presentations in partner’s countries and a final gamified event at an European level, in order to disseminate its Open Educational Resources, discussion materials, and working documents generated in the project, and to promote the debate between educators, entrepreneurs, businesses, policymakers, students, and other stakeholders in this field.

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​Call for participation | Online Free Course on Educational Escape Rooms (pilot)
April 2022 | Online
Are you looking for an interactive idea to engage your students in your next lesson?
As part of our project, we are now piloting our interactive MOOC on educational escape rooms to educators interested in learning more about integrating gamified activities into their practice.
Not interested in MOOCs, you can also participate by only completing the questionnaires. The pilot runs from 1 to 29 April 2022.
For more information, email us at escaperoom@hva.nl.
Register here until March 28 and tell your colleagues to join us!
Learning Mobility 2
8 to 10 November 2021 | Amsterdam

​Our second mobility took place in Amsterdam, and was hosted by our partners at the University of Applied Sciences (The Hogeschool van Amsterdam).
Throughout three intensive days, the participants had the opportunity to thoroughly review the contents and design of the Massive Online Open Course (MOOC), design their own Educational Escape Rooms, and be involved in their assessment.

The participants' feedback on the mobility was extremely positive, and this experience will inform the next phases of the development of the project's digital learning platform.
How to co-create a MOOC (on EER)
9th September | 14:00 - 15:00 CEST | Online
UNLOCK will be hosting the online event “How to create a MOOC (on Educational Escape Rooms)”, inviting educators, researchers, students, and representatives of business and public organisations. The event is organised by Bespoke (DK), and will focus on discussing the process of developing a digital learning platform (a Massive Open Online Course - MOOC) in a collaborative way. The event will also be an opportunity to share the project's results and resources.
Register now and tell your colleagues to join us!
​Learning Mobility 1
10th to 27th May 2021 | Online
In the first Learning Mobility of our project, there  were 18 PhD students, lecturers, professors, researchers, and teachers enrolled, coming from 7 different countries: Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Lithuania, Portugal, Spain, and The Netherlands (including Curacao). 

In this training, the participants were actively involved in reading literature to understand (digital) educational escape rooms and the educator's competences, creating digital educational escape rooms, and evaluating the digital educational escape rooms developed by them throughout the learning mobility.
Their feedback about this experience revealed that the participants liked the learning mobility in general and learned a lot. They were motivated to use EER in their pedagogical practices after the training, and they suggested more time devoted to theoretical aspects and access to more examples of EERs.

Programme
Educational Escape Room (EER) games in Higher Education - Future of research and practice
1st October 2020 | Online
The Erasmus+ UNLOCK project has recently hosted the online event “Educational Escape Room (EER) games in Higher Education - Future of research and practice”, with the attendance of 48 participants from all continents, and made up of diverse range of profiles, including educators, researchers, students, and representatives of business and public organisations. Organised by the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre (S2BMRC) and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), the event aimed at dissemination of findings from the research phase carried out by the UNLOCK project consortium as well as offering a platform for EER enthusiasts to connect and exchange experiences. 
Accordingly, the two expert presentation tracks focused on sharing of EER practices and research from HEI and business contexts, in France, Netherlands, Spain, Germany, and Denmark. ​
Research Results
Practice Track
Wrapup

Programme

Speakers

"New learning experiences in HEIs: games and creativity"
​7th January 2020 | University of Aveiro

​Following the kick off meeting of the project UNLOCK, the partnership organized a seminar which was open to the entire academic community, which included the implementation of an "Escape Room", with the participation of students and teachers from the University of Aveiro, as well as the members of the partnership. To wrap up the experience, the participants discussed the relevance of using this approach in content-specific areas of teaching and learning in Higher Education, as well as the possibilities to implement them in other educational contexts.
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