Take part in an immersive missing persons investigation, where teams solve interconnected puzzles by searching, decoding, and combining physical and digital clues hidden throughout a specially designed immersive experience.
What is it?
MISPER is an immersive, scenario-based learning activity that places participants inside a missing person investigation, delivered as a guided escape-room style experience in a specially equipped immersive room environment. It was developed as a short format educational tool to teach investigative skills, build critical thinking and cognitive development,and collaborative problem-solving in an engaging, hands-on format.
The experience is facilitated by DE&E staff members for groups of participants (students, staff, team building etc.), encouraging teamwork, observation, discussion, and collaborative soft skills.
Experience and Impact
The MISPER immersive room escape experience is a prime example of experiential
learning, driving learning through direct experience, active engagement, and the application of knowledge in a simulated real-world context.
MISPER offers a powerful experiential learning environment. Instead of passively receiving information, students are actively immersed in a scenario-based investigation. This experience develops transferable soft skills that are highly valued in academic and professional employment settings, such as teamwork, problem-solving, time management, and leadership.
The collaborative nature of the MISPER Escape Room format ensures that students from all disciplines learn from one another, practice negotiation and decision-making, and experience the challenges of working in a team under time pressure. This hands-on approach has made the learning more memorable and impactful, as students are not just learning about investigation or collaboration, but actively experiencing and practicing these essential skills in a safe and controlled, immersive environment.
Key Takeaways
- Highly engaging experiential immersive session
- Cross-disciplinary activity
- Transferable soft skills development for academia and employability
Next Steps
As a result of the success of the escape room, we are currently working on:
TDD Cyber Crisis Escape Room:
An escape room more specific to cybersecurity and computing.
Carmarthen Immersive Room:
A historical experience that will draw influences from a variety of courses and subject areas to showcase how Immersive learning can be used for different disciplines.
For more information, please contact: immersive@uwtsd.ac.uk