What could an escape room for welfare and healthcare professionals look like? 🚀 🏥
Around 50 students and pupils from The Hague University of Applied Sciences, mboRijnland, Melanchthon Bergschenhoek and Oranje Nassau College Parkdreef will be exploring that question over the coming months.
An inspiring kick-off took place at the Dutch Innovation Factory, hosted by Arianne Riedijk and Frank Eijgenrook from Het Experimenteerhuis and myself on behalf of THUAS GameLab.
After the introduction, participants toured the Experimenteerhuis and GameLab before working together on the first questions.
Serious games are particularly important in fields such as welfare and healthcare, where training staff properly is a major challenge. The art is to present the learning material in a way that is enjoyable and intrinsically motivating.
My sister Fleur Derwort is a healthcare professional 🩺 and sees the challenges and uses of technology in practice. She emphasised the importance of this assignment very convincingly!
I am very curious to see the wonderful ideas the students taking part in this challenge will come up with. 💡