A Systemically Synergistic Approach to the Design of Integrative Advanced Training Courses in the Field of Cross-Cutting Technologies

This paper presents an approach to designing advanced training courses (ATC) in digital cross-cutting technologies (CCT) implementation to solve interdisciplinary problems in different industries. The courses are designed for domain professionals and leaders who are interested in digital transformation of their businesses. The main feature of our research is the strictly limited time available to the course team and students. Teachers must rapidly design and provide a course with learning content, and students cannot devote extended time to learning. Additionally, courses should be client-centered, meet student expectations, and be based on the multi-scale synergy of interdisciplinary, science-intensive solutions. Our approach contains two main steps for the design of ATC. The first step is to build a map of problem areas at the intersection of CCT and the project life cycle stages. The second step is to build an X-matrix containing the intracorporative needs of the project, the new skills of the trainees, the technologies studied in the course, and a list of course topics. Using our approach, we have designed three continuing education courses. We received high expert evaluations and positive feedback from most graduates.