Digital Innovation
Email entrepreneurship@qut.edu.au for information, resources and classes.
Learning Outcomes
- 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
Higher level
- 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)