D-UDA: a digital didactic learning unit combining an escape room with multisensory games for fifth-grade mathematics¶

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Description¶

D-UDA (unità didattica di apprendimento digitale) is a website-based digital learning unit for fifth-grade mathematics, offered during the first Italian COVID-19 lockdown. The article states that "The D-UDA experience was divided into two parts: the virtual classroom and the virtual archeological site." The first part contains logic puzzles aligned with INVALSI national test frameworks; the second contains multisensory Scratch games, a Domus escape room, and a robot-programming activity in OpenRoberta. It was integrated into the curriculum in agreement with teachers.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

Built only with freely available technologies such as Scratch and G-Suite to foster the inclusion of children with economic difficulties
Conducted under supervision of at least one teacher and the experimenter who intervened in case students encountered difficulties

Constraints¶

Tools used are very basic and not easily usable on all browsers

Target Learners¶

Fifth-grade primary school children, including those with sensory impairments or economic difficulties

Learning Goals¶

Fifth-grade mathematics (numbers; space and figures; relations, data and forecasts)
Transversal competencies such as cooperation and engagement

Claims¶

Children navigating D-UDA alone at home reported lower ease for distance learning than for solo usability [-W]

Sequential educational escape room structure for a digital learning unit

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

Walter Setti, Rebecca Tarello, Erica Volta, Lucia Ferlino, Monica Gori, Gualtiero Volpe. (2025). DUDA: a digital didactic learning unit based on educational escape rooms and multisensory learning activities for primary school children during COVID-19 lockdown. Education Tech Research Dev 73. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-024-10407-4

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`title`	`D-UDA: a digital didactic learning unit combining an escape room with multisensory games for fifth-grade mathematics`
`description`	`D-UDA (unità didattica di apprendimento digitale) is a website-based digital learning unit for fifth-grade mathematics, offered during the first Italian COVID-19 lockdown.`
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`generated`	by `process:settle-candidates` on `2026-10-28`
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`sources`	1 — `walter-setti-2025`

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