ICELW 2018 Proceedings Foreword

Dear Reader:

I founded ICELW in 2008 with the goal of bringing together research and practice. ICELW has been designed to bring together people from the academic world and the business world, in order to further explore and share ways in which technology is used in workplaces to improve job performance. As technology evolves, the possible effects on learning, development, and performance continue to grow. I view ICELW as a place where people can share ideas about the types of experiences that can best make use of new technologies, and as a way to support interactions that can lead to new ideas.

ICELW 2018's program continued to build on previous ICELW conferences, including demonstrations of e-learning work and research studies, and a variety of excellent presentations given by experts from around the world.

As has been the case for several years, we are seeing more and more movement within organizations away from traditional academic models of teaching, toward approaches that focus on performance improvement and the application of knowledge. I'm pleased to see more and more practical work that stems from a basis in theory, and draws from a variety of disciplines. I have long believed that the design of successful online learning and performance technology is both an art and a science. That belief remains at the heart of ICELW and its existence.

This proceedings contains all academic papers that were accepted into ICELW 2018. Since ICELW mixes academia and the business world, our proceedings volume also includes, in addition to academic papers, presentation slides from those presenters who chose to include them.

I hope to see you back next year for ICELW 2019!

David Guralnick, Ph.D.
New York, NY, USA
June 2020