Southern Miss Human Capital Development Ph.D. Alum Publishes Papers on Military Training - The University of Southern Mississippi

Fri, 01/13/2023 - 14:32pm | By: Dena Temple

Dr. Richard Ayers, who graduated from The University of Southern Mississippi’s Human Capital Development programme successful 2016, precocious presented 2 important probe papers astatine the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) successful Orlando, Fla.

I/ITSEC is the world's largest modeling, simulation, and grooming event. It is sponsored by the National Training & Simulation Association (NTSA), which promotes cooperation among the Armed Services, industry, academia, and assorted authorities agencies successful pursuit of improved grooming and acquisition programs, recognition of communal grooming issues, and improvement of multi-service programs. Because NTSA is an affiliate subsidiary of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), the league emphasizes themes related to defence and security.

Ayers, who retired from the U.S. Army successful 2018, presently works arsenic an Organizational Design and Change Management Consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton. With much than 29,000 employees worldwide, the institution offers consulting services successful the fields of defense, health, energy, planetary development, and others.

The archetypal of Ayers’s 2 papers, “A Multi-method Learning Framework for Multi-capable Airmen,” develops champion practices for situational and experiential learning integrated with virtual world exertion successful a grooming environment, specifically for the U.S. Air Force. He is the sole writer of this paper.

Ayers co-authored the 2nd paper, “Development of a Searchable, Web-based Repository for Sharing ARVR Training Assets,” with 5 Air Force and civilian colleagues. This insubstantial describes the Air Force Research Laboratory’s effort to plan and make a web-based Community of Practice successful effect to the detonation of involvement successful using commercialized off-the-shelf Augmented (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) technologies successful training. This virtual assemblage allows designers to easy stock assets and assistance users learn from 1 different via webinars and treatment groups.

“The Human Capital Development Ph.D. programme astatine USM perfectly prepared maine for the precise competitory satellite of defence consulting,” said Ayers successful a caller interview. “I would not person been capable to behaviour the probe and constitute it up without the team [at the School of Leadership].”

“Dr. Ayers is conscionable 1 of our graduates making a difference,” said Dr. Heather Annulis, Director of the School of Leadership astatine USM, which offers the Ph.D. programme successful Human Capital Development. “His tendency to positively impact alteration and his committedness to taking Air Force combat effectiveness grooming to the adjacent level warrant his success. We are arrogant to telephone him a Southern Miss alum.”

The School of Leadership is housed wrong the College of Business and Economic Development astatine The University of Southern Mississippi and operates connected the Coastal USM field in Long Beach, Miss.

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