Exploring the Impact of Incorporating Digital Escape Room on Learners’ Performance and Motivation in Environmental Sustainability Education
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.58459/icce.2024.4893Abstract
Environmental education has been conducted to equip learners with relevant environmental conservation knowledge for many years. However, learners seldom put the knowledge into practice and even have few ideas about how to protect the earth. Accordingly, continuous attention to this issue is necessary to enhance the effectiveness of environmental education. One of the strategies is gamification through technological application, which could enhance learning interaction and motivation with learners. The current study developed an online environment with the concept of escape room in the experimental group on the basis of a gamification strategy. With the immersion of the escape room, learners were encouraged to protect nature in a playful and challenging way. This empirical study was implemented to examine whether the online environment could promote learners' understanding and motivation. Our findings showed that the learners' performance in experimental group was significantly higher than that in the control group, highlighting the effectiveness of the digital escape room in enhancing learning performance. Nevertheless, there were no statistically significant differences in motivation between the groups, although the experimental group exhibited consistently higher mean motivation scores, suggesting a positive trend that warrants further research.