Out of the Comfort Zone: New Ways to Teach, Learn, and Assess Essential Professional Skills -- An Advancement in Educational Innovation

Preface......Page 11
Beyond Comfort......Page 13
Essential Professional Skills Learning......Page 15
Survival......Page 16
Comfortable Curricula and Beyond......Page 19
Educational Collaborations......Page 20
Students......Page 21
Employers......Page 22
Change Introduction......Page 23
Monitoring the Coping Process......Page 35
Reflection on Learning......Page 36
Teaching Mode......Page 39
Assignment and Reward Parameters......Page 40
Peer Interaction......Page 41
Life is Unfair: Change of Teams and Projects......Page 43
No Room for Me: Change of Project Presentation Logistics......Page 45
A Boring Project: Change of Team Responsibilities......Page 47
Out of the Box: Requiring Innovation......Page 49
Nervous but not Dead: Change of Delivery Person......Page 51
What are We Going to Do: Open-Ended Projects......Page 53
Nobody is Around: Change in Instructor Availability......Page 55
My Impact: Oral Team Member Evaluation......Page 57
Performance Levels......Page 59
Example of Scoring Professional Skills Proficiency: Oral Presentation......Page 60
Project Context and Details......Page 62
Planning and Discipline......Page 63
Change Management......Page 64
Innovative Thinking......Page 65
Ambiguity Management......Page 66
Teamwork and Leadership......Page 67
Oral Presentation......Page 68
Written Presentation......Page 69
Interpersonal Communication......Page 70
Attitude......Page 71
Conflict Resolution......Page 72
Cross-Cultural Understanding......Page 73
Knowledge About ``Self''......Page 74
Expectation Management......Page 75
Bibliography......Page 77
Author's Biography......Page 79