T-Shaped Professionals : Adaptive Innovators.

This book provides a wide range of perspectives around the thesis that going forward the world will need more T-Shaped Professionals who are adaptive innovators. Skills are one of the hallmarks of every profession. The skills of doctors allow them to heal others, while the skills of lawyers allow th...

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Main Author: Moghaddam, Yassi
Other Authors: Demirkan, Haluk, Spohrer, Jim
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Business Expert Press, 2018.
Series:Service systems and innovations in business and society collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: Individual Perspective; Chapter 1: Introduction: Toward an ISSIP T-Shaped Curriculum and Research Framework; Part II: Education Perspective; Chapter 2: An Integrated Transdisciplinary Educational Model and an Associated Faculty Development Model; Chapter 3: Bringing T to Community Colleges; Chapter 4: Force Field Analysis: A Way to Look at Challenges Facing Universities as They Try to Produce T-Shaped Graduates; Chapter 5: Rating and Ranking Universities, What Criteria Is Most Aligned with Creating T-Shaped Faculty and Students?
  • Part VI: How to Create 21st Century Professionals? T-shaped Adaptive InnovatorsChapter 13: Research-Driven Medical Education and Practice: A Case for T-Shaped Professionals; Chapter 14: Conclusions; About the Editors; About the Authors; How to get involved; Index; Adpage; Backcover.