ICELW 2014 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 ICELW is now in its sixth year, I have been pleased to see growth in the field overall, as well as collaborations springing forth based on past ICELW events.

ICELW 2014's program continued to build on previous ICELW conferences, with an increased focus on demonstrations of e-learning work and research studies, and a variety of excellent presentations given by experts from around the world.

We are still at a critical point in the field of online learning and performance; we are slowly starting to see 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 CD contains all academic papers that were accepted into ICELW 2014. Since ICELW mixes academia and the business world, our proceedings CD 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 2015!

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