Digital Innovation
Digital innovation describes your willingness to try new practices and look for new solutions with digital technology. The capacity to develop new practices with digital technology in organisational settings and in specialist subject areas (professional, vocational and disciplinary); digital entrepreneurship. At higher levels, the ability to lead organisations, departments, teams and practice/subject areas in new directions in response to digital challenges and opportunities.
Use the below guiding questions and resources to design and plan your assessment and learning resources/activities to support student development of digital innovation capabilities.
Student learning outcome examples
- Discuss, evaluate and reflect on key issues surrounding digital innovation and the rapid changes in specific disciplines
- Employ new ways of doing things with digital tools, apps and media
- Investigate how digital technologies are changing or might change in professional practice, including the use of generative artificial intelligence
- Develop new digital applications or solutions to meet specific professional, subject specialist or end-user needs
- Apply digital entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking concepts to professional situations
- Discover and assess new ways of integrating several technologies
- Act as a digital change agent or champion in a subject area
Synchronous Activities
Reading and group discussion
- Ask the students to read this short paper in class and individually answer the following questions.
- What did you learn from this article?
- Was there anything about this article you disagreed with?
- What specific innovations are happening to your area in health?
- What impacts do these innovations have?
- Split the students into groups to discuss their responses.
- Have each group report back to the class.
New technologies
- Ask the students to research, in groups, a cutting-edge technology in their field.
- Ask them to assess the benefits, costs and risks involved with this technology.
- Have them report back to the class.
Design thinking
- Facilitate a design thinking session in tutorial, asking students to apply design thinking to a digital health problem – for example sensitive data management.
- See example articles below for some ideas on how this has could be applied.
Resources
- QUT Entrepreneurship(QUT Resource
- Introduction to Digital Health Entrepreneurship(Coursera, online course)
- QLD Health Digital Iniatives(QLD Health, website)
