Teaching Response to Bias Using a Virtual Escape Room

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Active learning strategies for responding to bias often involve students role-playing potentially triggering scenes. A virtual escape room was developed to encourage the same level of active learning, while removing students from the need to playact distressing explicit and implicit bias. The escape room includes several virtual environments depicting different varieties of bias and prompting student responses. In this podcast and article, Juliann Stanis discusses the virtual escape room and why she developed it.