Digital Learning in Organizations: Help your Workforce Capitalize on Technology

by Steve Wheeler

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780749484699
Publisher:	Kogan Page, Ltd.
Publication date:	04/03/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Steve Wheeler is a learning innovations consultant and has worked with a number of high-profile organizations to support innovation, change and digital learning. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor of Learning Technologies at the Plymouth Institute of Education at the University of Plymouth and a manager in the NHS. He regularly keynotes at learning events around the world and has written extensively on the topic of technology-supported education and learning.

Table of Contents

• • Chapter - 00: Introduction – Setting the scene;
  • Chapter - 01: Learning and change;
  • Chapter - 02: Disrupting workplace learning;
  • Chapter - 03: A brief history of learning technology;
  • Chapter - 04: Change in context;
  • Chapter - 05: Personalizing learning;
  • Chapter - 06: Hyper-connected communities of practice;
  • Chapter - 07: Knowledge networks;
  • Chapter - 08: Digital readiness;
  • Chapter - 09: Connection and disruption;
  • Chapter - 10: State of play;
  • Chapter - 11: How we shape our futures;
  • Chapter - 12: References;
  • Chapter - 13: Index

Editorial Reviews

"Steve Wheeler's new book is a useful and practical guide for L&D practitioners who are in the process of change in fast moving and uncertain times."

Jane Hart

"I would urge you to read this book and then keep it by your side as a coherent and cogent reference as you implement your own technology solutions to learning. It is reliable and sensible: its conclusions valid, and its pathways to action eminently reasonable and worthwhile. Steve also marshals an army of experts around him to clarify and enhance the book's conclusions, so you feel as you read it that it represents the views of the entire industry. Highly recommended."

Nigel Paine

"With this new book Steve Wheeler not only serves the learning profession but society as a whole. The disruptive nature of technology feels threatening for many people. The only way to turn that threat into opportunities is to learn. We should use the same technology to support our learning. Steve Wheeler shows us how to do just that and he does so in a brilliant way."

Ger Driesen: Ger Driesen Learning Innovation Leader at aNewSpring

"A very rich and personally experienced exploration of trends in the application of educational technologies."

President of EDEN (European Distance and E-learnin Airina Volungeviciene

"The unprecedented pace of technological change presents us with revolutionary opportunities to improve how we learn and work. This book demystifies the complexities and provides us with an indispensable analysis of what we can achieve with digital learning."

Edmund Monk

"Steve Wheeler is an expert in humanising often complex and challenging issues. In this book he uses his mastery to help us all to access perhaps the most important strategy for a successful and sustainable future - lifelong learning. This is a definitive analysis of how we use the digital age for human betterment."

Global expert on change and human leadership Richard Gerver

"The challenge of getting things right with technology will always exist in a world where increasing speed and disruptive change are the two dominant forces. This well-researched book will help you navigate and address that challenge and provides a deep-dive into the role technology can play as an enabling power for workforce improvement."

Charles Jennings

"In this practical book, Steve Wheeler not only gives learning leaders the courage to 'turn and face the strange' he has also proved himself to be the pragmatic trusted, companion that all of us need, to take those critical first steps out of the familiar and into the new."

Laura Overton

"With this new book Steve Wheeler not only serves the learning profession but society as a whole. The disruptive nature of technology feels threatening for many people. The only way to turn that threat into opportunities is to learn. We should use the same technology to support our learning. Steve Wheeler shows us how to do just that and he does so in a brilliant way."

Ger Driesen: Ger Driesen Learning Innovation Leader at aNewSpring