Teaching Economics with Escape Rooms

We sit down with Tom Flesher and Noah Trudeau to talk about their JET SET session on using escape rooms to teach economics and statistics. Escape rooms are built around core economics concepts like opportunity cost and trade-offs. But Noah and Tom have taken it a step further and infused class-specific content into the clues that students need to solve to escape. Noah’s experience is based on a digital escape room he has used as a final exam review, while Tom describes how he has incorporated in-person, puzzle-based activities into his day-to-day classes. Together, they highlight how gamification ca...