Steve Wheeler – författare

Technology holds vast potential for learning and development (L&D) practitioners. It can improve performance, productivity, engagement and knowledge retention. But if employees aren''t able to leverage the potential of these technologies, any investment in them may be wasted. Digital Learning in Organizations shows L&D professionals how to make sure that their workforce is ''digitally ready'' and has the skills, capabilities and understanding needed to capitalize on the opportunities created by learning technologies and to feel confident in their ability to get the most out of them. It includes guidance on how technologies can be used to improve both social and personal learning, how the increased flexibility created by technology enables a multi-located workforce to develop simultaneously, and discussion of how to ensure that technology really does facilitate employee development and doesn''t become a distraction. Digital Learning in Organizations also includes comprehensive coverage of the ways in which L&D practitioners can engage with learning technologies and digital capabilities such as mobile learning, wearable technology, learning analytics, digital game-based learning as well as augmented, mixed and virtual reality. Packed with insights from leading L&D practitioners and case studies from organizations including Royal Mail, DTE Energy, and the UK National Health Service (NHS), this is an essential read for all L&D practitioners needing to improve employee and company performance in a digital world.

We are living in dark and discouraging times. This darkness has a way of draining us of any hope that we might have for better days. When we do get a glimpse of hope, there seems to an unbeatable giant to face or a raging river to cross. Any hope we have is quickly cast down.

It is in those moments that God wants to show Himself mighty on our behalf. He wants to rout our enemies and put them to flight. He wants to strengthen us so we stand up and defeat the giants that seem unbeatable. He wants to part the waters so we can cross over into His land of promised blessing and prosperity. He wants to be ImmanuelGod with us.

Endorsements:Immanuel Moments is one mans testimony of how God is with us even in our darkest hour. It reminds us that, truly, all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord and are called according to His purpose. It reminds us that we cannot escape the love of our Father even though we wonder far from home. Steve Leach

Awesome book full of moments when God stepped into Steves life to send a message of encouragement, love, hope, and strength to him. This book will inspire you to seek the plans and purpose you were created for and challenge you to remember and share the Immanuel Moments in your own life. Tamra Garman

As the title indicates, this book highlights the shifting and emergent features that represent life online, specifically in and around the territory of e-learning.

Cybercultures in themselves are complex conglomerations of ideas, philosophies, concepts, and theories, some of which are fiercely contradictory. As a construct, ''cyberculture'' is a result of sustained attempts by diverse groups of people to make sense of multifarious activities, linguistic codes, and practices in complicated and ever-changing settings. It is an impossibly convoluted field. Any valid understanding of cyberculture can only be gained from living within it, and as Bell suggests, it is ''made up of people, machines and stories in everyday life.'' Although this book contains a mix of perspectives, as the chapters progress, readers should detect some common threads.

Technology-mediated activities are featured throughout, each evoking its particular cultural nuances and, as Derrick de Kerckhove (1997) has eloquently argued, technology acts as the skin of culture. All the authors are passionate about their subjects, every one engages critically with his or her topics, and each is fully committed to the belief that e-learning is a vitally important component in the future of education. All of the authors believe that digital learning environments will contribute massively to the success of the information society we now inhabit. Each is intent on exploration of the touchstone of ''any time, any place'' learning where temporal and spatial contexts cease to become barriers to learning, and where the boundaries are blurring between the formal and informal.

This book is divided into four sections. In Part I, which has been titled ''Digital Subcultures,'' we begin an exploration of ''culture'' and attempt to locate the learner within a number of digital subcultures that have arisen around new and emerging technologies such as mobile and handheld devices, collaborative online spaces, and podcasting. The chapters in this section represent attempts by the authors to demonstrate that there are many subdivisions present on the Web, and that online learners cannot and should not be represented as one vast amorphous mass of ''Internet'' users.