Why Learning Is So Hard for Adults (And How Games Can Help)
October 2025
“Learning as an adult is hard. Indeed, it’s much harder than when we were kids and our brains had the plasticity of learning sponges. Today, our time at work is stretched too thin with a myriad of responsibilities and ever-changing priorities. So, it’s no wonder that when it comes time to take an elearning course at work, it’s natural that our defenses go up.
During our session, we will discuss how to create emotionally engaging games for learners to wrestle with the content as well as to create a gamified, social learning community to motivate learning.”
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Escape Room Rx: Innovating Game-Based Clinical Education
May 2025
How do you teach empathy, diagnosis and treatment in under 20 minutes? You build an escape room. Gamified learning can be a great tool to foster empathy, boost knowledge retention and deliver engaging, impactful education.
Shaun Davies, manager of learning experience design at CHEST, and Lydia Symchych, game designer at ELB Learning, will show you how they balanced clinical rigor with creative puzzle design. Whether you're new to game-based learning or looking to innovate your training programs, you’ll find practical insight into how storytelling and interactivity can transform healthcare education.”
Let’s Play! Category Quest: ELB Learning’s Newest Game
April 2025
“The game designer behind ELB Learning's newest addition to The Training Arcade®, Lydia Symchych, will do a spin around Category Quest's digital game board.
See the new game and all its features in action
Learn how best to use Category Quest in a learning plan
Take a peek under the hood at major improvements to The Training Arcade’s CMS”
Designing Games For Impact
September 2024
“Ready to create a training game but unsure where to begin? Join Lydia Symchych, Game Designer at ELB Learning, as she shares her streamlined 4-step design process for transforming learning content into actionable game goals. Discover the thought process behind crafting effective learning games, identify common pitfalls and how to navigate them, and learn how to make your content engaging and accessible from the outset. In this session, you will:
Peek into a game designer’s thought process when making a learning game
Identify common pitfalls and find solutions that honor the intent behind them
Learn ways to make your content engaging and more accessible from the start”