Deborah Waddill

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• Ed.D., Executive Leadership Program -- The George Washington University
• Adjunct Professor at George Washington University

Web-based instruction is this century’s most-talked about educational and training media. In an attempt to actualize the power of this tool, organizations are experimenting with innovative methods to improve their learning processes (Yoo, Kanawattanachai, & Citurs, 2002). The resulting courses offered over corporate and educational Intranets   also...

Web-based instruction, also called e-learning, is currently one of the most talked-about education and training media. To prepare courses for online delivery and to maintain their effectiveness, the designer must have an understanding of e-learning instructional design principles. Action learning is a proven, effective management development proces...

Action Learning is a powerful tool for adult learning. This article demonstrates the relationship between the five major theories of adult learning and the facets of action learning.

This chapter address post-pandemic trends in: • Recruiting technologies and innovative alternatives • Workforce management and service delivery • Workforce management and learning technologies • Supporting remote and hybrid work • Maintaining wellbeing in the workplace

At the ICERI 2023 Conference, this presentation combined the analysis provided in the conference paper and the poster on using Active Learning and Work-Integrated Learning Methodologies to impact job placement for students using technology to connect with jobs while in Higher Education.

This study examines the impact of proven, extensively researched active learning methods such as Problem-Based Learning, Project-Based Learning, Case Study Analysis and Experiential Learning when coupled with internships and cooperative learning arrangements to develop the skills to increase job placement and graduation rates above the U.S. nationa...

There is a naturally synergistic relationship that exists between Higher Education and workplaces. Students who are prepared with appropriate skills through active learning should be able to enroll in paid, work-integrated learning experiences, using one of several online platforms, in order to build their portfolios and benefit local or remote bus...

Chat GPT and Google Bard are used to research the top four-year, public and private Higher Education Institutions that use both Active Learning methods and Work-Integrated Learning in the US. Those schools' graduation and job placement rates were then compared to the national averages in 2021 for same. Findings demonstrate that these combined metho...

The purpose of this research was to analyze the extant, historical data to capture and examine how virtual Active Learning methods combined with virtual Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) impact four-year graduation rates and employment rates within six months after graduation, excluding those pursuing further education. The research methodology employ...

This interview with CEO of Kelly, Peter Quigley, offers practical insights into how the best practices in DEI have been supported by Kelly through the use of technology.

This article is about mental wellness as it relates to overall wellbeing and organizational culture. Use cases provided include Gallup and Chevron (2022), both organizations with a strong, positive, and healthy culture that supports employee mental, physical, social, financial, and community health.

Challenging times require innovative solutions, and the current work climate qualifies as challenging. It is also complex. In the book Reset, author Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP, makes the point, "We have seen during recent reset moments that HR is the true home of innovation within the modern organization…and the innovative employee experience....

Digital HR focuses on how to create a technology strategy by examining digital HR technologies from the viewpoint of talent management, learning management, and knowledge management. Chapter One baselines the necessary components for a digital HR strategy. Chapter two identifies the technologies that have disrupted every industry. They include soci...

Digital HR addresses the revolutionary trends and disruptive technologies to provide HR professionals--from executives to students--with a comprehensive and evidence-based guide to current technologies that enhance, enable, revitalize, and empower Human Resources.

This is a comprehensive resource describing current technologies that are relevant to the human resource professional including technology selection and implementation processes.

This article demonstrates how future trends in action learning align with the forecasted changes in the field of human resource development. The areas of action learning’s potential impact include globalization, strategic planning and decision making, leadership development, and service learning, all of which will be sustained and enabled by techno...

Abstract: E-learning design has been researched and best practices determined over the past fifteen years. However, few have articulated strategies for the overall design of a constructivist approach to e-learning for the adult learner. This article describes three action-based, constructivist e-learning strategies that implement leading edge, prov...

Action learning has the ability to solve complex problems and to significantly increase the speed and quality of individual, team and organizational learning. Its theoretical base and relationship to adult learning orientations and the source of this power remain relatively unexplored. The authors conducted an extensive review of the literature in...