A Virus Infected Your Laptop. Let’s Play an Escape Game

[EN]Have you ever thought what would happen if a ransomware infected your laptop? This type of virus kidnaps files and encrypts them, and the only way to recover the data is by paying in bitcoin or some other cryptocurrency. This situation is undoubtedly terrible. All of your work, projects, and per...

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Authors: Queiruga Dios, María Araceli, Santos Sánchez, María Jesús, Queiruga-Dios, Marián, Gayoso Martínez, Víctor, Hernández Encinas, María Ascensión
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Publication Date:2020
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)
Repository:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10366/149816
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escape room
game-based learning
engineering education
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spelling A Virus Infected Your Laptop. Let’s Play an Escape GameQueiruga Dios, María AraceliSantos Sánchez, María JesúsQueiruga-Dios, MariánGayoso Martínez, VíctorHernández Encinas, María Ascensiónbreakoutescape roomgame-based learningengineering education1203.10 Enseñanza Con Ayuda de Ordenador[EN]Have you ever thought what would happen if a ransomware infected your laptop? This type of virus kidnaps files and encrypts them, and the only way to recover the data is by paying in bitcoin or some other cryptocurrency. This situation is undoubtedly terrible. All of your work, projects, and personal files will not be available (unless you pay the ransom). The first time students watched a video that contextualizes this stressful situation, they thought that they had been attacked by a computer virus. Fortunately, the panic only lasted a few seconds. This is the way to start a game called breakout or escape room. The difference between these two words is that, in the first case, the goal is to open a padlocked box, while the objective of an escape room is to find the key that allows to get out of a room. Both games are similar, containing riddles, puzzles, problems and some clues that would help the players to find the solution. This study analyses the use of a breakout game for educational purposes, more specifically in a university context. The experiment conducted mixes game–based learning methodologies with engineering students learning Linear Algebra, Calculus or Cryptography, which has allowed us to obtain promising results about the usage of this methodology.This work has been supported in part by the Erasmus+ program of the European Union under grant 2017-1-ES01-KA203-038491 (RULES_MATH), in part by Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovaci n y Universidades (MCIU, Spain), Agencia Estatal de Investigaci n (AEI, Spain), and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER, UE) under Project COPCIS (grant number TIN2017-84844-C2-1-R) and Project MAGERAN (grant number TIN2017-84844-C2-2-R).202220222020info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10366/149816reponame:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamancainstname:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)InglésAttribution 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:gredos.usal.es:10366/1498162025-07-07T06:31:01Z
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Queiruga Dios, María Araceli
breakout
escape room
game-based learning
engineering education
1203.10 Enseñanza Con Ayuda de Ordenador
title_short A Virus Infected Your Laptop. Let’s Play an Escape Game
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Santos Sánchez, María Jesús
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Santos Sánchez, María Jesús
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Gayoso Martínez, Víctor
Hernández Encinas, María Ascensión
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Queiruga-Dios, Marián
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv breakout
escape room
game-based learning
engineering education
1203.10 Enseñanza Con Ayuda de Ordenador
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escape room
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engineering education
1203.10 Enseñanza Con Ayuda de Ordenador
description [EN]Have you ever thought what would happen if a ransomware infected your laptop? This type of virus kidnaps files and encrypts them, and the only way to recover the data is by paying in bitcoin or some other cryptocurrency. This situation is undoubtedly terrible. All of your work, projects, and personal files will not be available (unless you pay the ransom). The first time students watched a video that contextualizes this stressful situation, they thought that they had been attacked by a computer virus. Fortunately, the panic only lasted a few seconds. This is the way to start a game called breakout or escape room. The difference between these two words is that, in the first case, the goal is to open a padlocked box, while the objective of an escape room is to find the key that allows to get out of a room. Both games are similar, containing riddles, puzzles, problems and some clues that would help the players to find the solution. This study analyses the use of a breakout game for educational purposes, more specifically in a university context. The experiment conducted mixes game–based learning methodologies with engineering students learning Linear Algebra, Calculus or Cryptography, which has allowed us to obtain promising results about the usage of this methodology.
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