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Virtual Hrd’S Role In Crisis And The Post Covid-19 Professional Lifeworld: Accelerating Skills For Digital Transformation, Elisabeth E. Bennett, Rochell Mcwhorter

Human Resource Development Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Problem: The Covid-19 pandemic brought unprecedented crisis to a world already undergoing digital transformation. Millions of people began working virtually to prevent the spread of disease and to maintain business continuity, suddenly participating in virtual human resource development (VHRD) and alternative work strategies that helped organizations adapt to current challenges and prepare for future disruption. The purpose of this article is to analyze VHRD’s role in the crisis and the transition to a new era marked by further disruption and change.

Solution: This article provides a primer for understanding the environmental perspective of VHRD, analyzes reskilling and upskilling trends during …

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Exploring The Perceptions Of College Students On The Use Of Technology: What Do They Really Think?, Colleen Erin Marzilli, Julie A. Delello, Shelly Marmion, Rochell Mcwhorter

Human Resource Development Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Technology is an essential component of learning in the 21st century. College professors and teachers hold many assumptions regarding the technological skills and knowledge that students possess while learning in the college setting. In this article, we explore the technology use and attitudes towards technology held by students enrolled in a regional public university offering online, face-to-face and hybrid instruction. The understanding of students’ attitudes and use of technology is essential to informing the technological direction and pedagogical model in higher education from a traditional, lecture-based model to a technologically-enhanced model. In this study, we employed a mixed-method design using …

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Exploring A Sociomaterial Perspective On Technology In Virtual Human Resource Development, Mary Helen Fagan

Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

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The Problem

Technology is creating immersive digital ecosystems that will radically transform the way humans communicate, collaborate, and create. Virtual human resource development (VHRD) is an example of this phenomenon in the field of HRD. With the emergence of VHRD, HRD scholars need to develop more robust conceptualizations of technology, and HRD practitioners need to play a larger role in technology development. Enhanced theoretical perspectives on technology are needed to support these endeavors.

The Solution

A sociomaterial perspective on technology, which is being used for the study and development of phenomena such as virtual worlds in other disciplines, can help …

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