Holmesglen TAFE – led research into educational escape rooms

Holmesglen TAFE – led research into educational escape rooms

Holmesglen’s Dr Harrison Burgin and Ms Kim Kenwell have been disseminating the findings of their applied research project which focused on innovative teaching and learning methods in Holmesglen’s Faculty of Health Science, Community and Social Studies. One of the research projects explored how educational escape rooms can be used as a method of allowing students to apply their learning to a series of problems, promoting collaborative problem solving. The aim is to develop learners’ transferable skills; their communication, problem solving, time management and critical thinking – the skills that are hard to teach in a classroom.
Their research found the innovative escape rooms to be more memorable than classical learning methods, and that learners perceived that the challenges improved their transferable skills across the board.
Harrison and Kim presented their findings at a recent TDA’s TAFETalks webinar and at the AVETRA 2025 conference.  They are looking forward to disseminating the findings further at the Australasian Simulation Congress, and in future publications. For more details, please contact Dr Harrison Burgin, Applied Research Fellow: Harrison.burgin@holmesglen.edu.au