The escape room as a teaching tool in the university virtual classroom: perceptions and learning results

The general objective of this research is to determine if the use of escape rooms improves the learning performance of postgraduate students of the International Economic Environment subject of the Master’s Degree in Foreign Trade Management and Internationalization of Companies at the International University of La Rioja. For it, this research poses two questions: a) does the use of escape rooms impact the learning performance of students?; and b) do students perceive that escape rooms improve their skills? The experimental methodology was applied to this work. The data to carry out the analysis were obtained from a questionnaire designed to collect the students’ perceptions about the impact of the experience and a knowledge control test to evaluate the impact of the escape room on academic performance. The results obtained show that the use of the escape room has a positive impact on the perceptions and learning results of the students.