Melissa A. Simons

Melissa A. Simons is a learning and development organizational advisor and lead and has achieved a twenty-five-year career in the oil and gas industry, within the realms of adult workplace learning and talent development. She has leveraged expertise in communication design within learning and development theoretical methodologies, to deliver global instructor-led, blended hybrid learning, eLearning, and just-in-time microlearning product solutions. Her deliverables result in the application of embedded human performance principles and workforce competencies with visual literacy concepts that outline, influence, direct, or aid each project phase decision, individual or project team decision, or outcome.

Publications

eLearning Environments as Engaging Invitations to Elementary Age Learners: Parental Experiences and Understandings
Allyson Ward Neal, Melissa A. Simons, Noran L. Moffett. © 2023. 23 pages.
This discussion shares one working parent's experiences, as a parent aiding her daughter in an eLearning environment. In March 2019, the daughter's elementary school shut...
International Journal of eSports Multidisciplinary Research (IJEMR)
Sang Nam. Est. 2022.
The International Journal of eSports Multidisciplinary Research (IJEMR) provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to share leading-edge knowledge in eSports. IJEMR is a...
eLearning Engagement in a Transformative Social Learning Environment
Caroline M. Crawford, Melissa A. Simons. © 2021. 340 pages.
Distance learning and remote learning have been developing options within the eLearning and talent training realms for over two decades, yet distance learning has become a...
Fostering an Attitude of Intentional Collaboration: Building an Environment of Relational, Intellectual Synergy
Melissa A. Simons, Anne Rudnicki, Roger Walters, Caroline M. Crawford. © 2021. 26 pages.
Four professionals in the talent development world come together to better understand the relational working relationship between subject matter experts (SMEs) and instructional...
Social Learning Through a Participative Storytelling Framework: Rethinking the Essence of Course Engagement
Caroline M. Crawford, Melissa A. Simons, Roger Walters. © 2021. 24 pages.
The shift from face-to-face learning and talent development environments into virtual and online learning environments gives an opportunity to rethink what may be described as...
eLearning Environments as Engaging Invitations to Elementary Age Learners: Parental Experiences and Understandings
Allyson Ward Neal, Melissa A. Simons, Noran L. Moffett. © 2021. 23 pages.
This discussion shares one working parent's experiences, as a parent aiding her daughter in an eLearning environment. In March 2019, the daughter's elementary school shut...
Foreword
Melissa A. Simons. © 2020. 2 pages.
This Foreword is included in the book Confronting Academic Mobbing in Higher Education: Personal Accounts and Administrative Action.