Teaching strategies are developing rapidly to engage learners in the virtual and physical environment. The terminology used to fuse educators, researchers and students within a common paradigm and language is also evolving. This special edition of Simulation & Gaming seeks to guide simulationist in the use of innovative escape rooms and create unifying processes to report on this teaching strategy. This symposium of articles provides some rich ideas and perhaps even blueprints that can assist educators in re-creation or adaptation of this teaching strategy within their own setting. Each article is unique, sharing a setting for the reader with special tips and considerations, as well as items needed to ensure a well-developed scenario. Simulations Ready to Use articles have been a category of some Simulation & Gaming issues the past few years. These types of articles often share research findings on existing simulations and games, and in many cases have also served as a sort of instruction manual. Likewise, some of the authors in this symposium provide detailed instructions of how they set up and piloted their escape rooms. As part of the piloting process, many of them assessed the impact that the escape rooms had on learning and provided the results of their pilot studies. This process is important and may lead to assessing the value of escape rooms through larger-scale multidisciplinary research.

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逃生室：时代到来的新颖策略

教学策略正在迅速发展，以使学习者参与虚拟和物理环境。用于将教育者，研究人员和学生融合在一个共同的范式和语言中的术语也在不断发展。这本《模拟与游戏》特别版旨在指导模拟师使用创新的逃生室，并创建统一的流程来报告这种教学策略。这次专题讨论会提供了一些丰富的想法，甚至提供了蓝图，可以帮助教育工作者在自己的环境中重新创建或适应这种教学策略。每篇文章都是独一无二的，为读者提供了一个具有特殊提示和注意事项的设置，以及为确保情景良好发展所需的项目。在过去的几年中，“立即可用的仿真”文章已成为一些“仿真与游戏”问题的类别。这些类型的文章通常会分享有关现有模拟和游戏的研究结果，并且在许多情况下还充当了一种指导手册。同样地，本次研讨会的一些作者提供了有关如何设置和操纵逃生室的详细说明。作为试点过程的一部分，其中许多人评估了逃生室对学习的影响并提供了试点研究的结果。这个过程很重要，可能会导致通过更大范围的多学科研究评估逃生室的价值。