Escape rooms can be more than just fun and games—they are effective tools for creating immersive and engaging learning experiences. By blending problem-solving, teamwork, and storytelling, escape rooms can transform traditional learning into an adventure that promotes critical thinking, collaboration, and deep knowledge retention.

Discover how to harness this innovative strategy to drive real learning outcomes through experiential and action-driven methods, learn a few cyphers and codes that should be in every escape room and explore the impact they can have on learner performance.  

In this dynamic session, you will:

• Discover the principles of the Action-First Learning approach and how it transforms passive learning into active engagement
• Learn strategies to design and implement escape rooms that promote critical thinking, collaboration, and knowledge retention
• Explore real-world examples of escape rooms used in a variety of settings

Just Added! 30-minute bonus session. Immediately following the main presentation, Josh Bleggi will walk you through how to build an escape room in CenarioVR, showcasing how easy it is to create engaging puzzles and codes in a virtual space.

Karl M. Kapp, Ed.D., is a professor of Instructional Design and Technology at Commonwealth University in Bloomsburg, PA and author of a dozen books on the convergence of learning, technology, games and interactive instruction including the best selling "The Gamification of Learning and Instruction" and the soon to be released "Action-First Learning: Instructional Design Techniques to Engage and Inspire."

Karl writes a popular LinkedIn Newsletter called "L&D Easter Eggs" and is a frequent international keynote speaker, workshop leader, moderator, and panelist at conferences as well as events for private corporations and universities. He is a TEDx speaker, author of ten LinkedIn Learning Courses, developer of digital and analog learning games, and passionate about action-first learning designs. His current passion projects are his YouTube series called "The Unofficial, Unauthorized History of Learning Games" and his series "How AI Helps L&D Professionals."

Follow him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/karlkapp/

Joshua (Josh) Bleggi is a Learning Solutions Engineer at ELB Learning. Josh brings a diverse background and perspective that intersects UX, Marketing, and Instructional Design. His unique ability to think across disciplines and explain technology in plain language makes Josh a popular presenter and product evangelist.