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Health Science EdTech Innovation Challenge
CLOSED JUNE 2021
Health Science EdTech Innovation Challenge
Based on your experience as a student or provider of virtual learning, how would you innovate to improve the experience and enhance learning by graduate-level students at a health science center?
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DETAILS
Timeline
Who can participate?
This Innovation Challenge is an internal HSC challenge open to all faculty, staff and students at the UNT Health Science Center. Teams comprised of up to four members are welcome, but not required.
Process
Tell us your idea
Register
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Review Resources
Explore the HSC Next platform to discover resources that can help you think about or develop your idea. You can find Tools to help you develop your idea, Stories that will inspire you to think like an entrepreneur, Connectors that offer innovation programming and even Events that will challenge you to grow as an innovator. Check back often as the resources are frequently updated.
Submit Your Idea
Begin telling us about your idea! Click the START button on this page and answer a few questions. You can save your work and return to it later. After logging back in, you will find your draft submission on your profile page. Once you’ve finished, click SUBMIT to enter your idea in the Challenge.
What's YOUR solution?
Whether you realize it or not, you have become an expert in virtual education in a health science center setting. Over the past 15 months, the COVID-19 pandemic changed your academic experience as a medical student, graduate student, instructor or administrator in ways you never imagined.
As you know, the education sector is experiencing a significant shift in its engagement of technology to deliver or supplement learning outcomes. Emerging innovation at the interface of education and technology is often referred to as “EdTech.” By the year 2025, the market for this industry is expected to reach $404 billion.
Growth drivers for the EdTech market include: [1]
- Collaborating with students, teachers and other stakeholders to reorient EdTech as a supplement to, not replacement for, traditional education
- Novel strategies to increase learner engagement among young, educated, tech-savvy students (Think gamification, AI, VR, 3D printing and robotics)
- Increased importance of reskilling, upskilling and soft skills in a rapidly evolving economy
Examples of innovative companies in this space include:
However, much of the industry’s focus has been on younger (particularly K-12) students. Postgraduate education—especially in the health science space—presents unique challenges and no one knows that better than YOU. With these challenges comes opportunity! – an opportunity that may have been overlooked by incumbent startups and innovators with focus elsewhere.
So, take the challenge: how would you innovate to improve the virtual learning experience of graduate-level students at a health science center?
References
Jeffrey Selingo, Cole Clark, Dave Noone, Amy Wittmayer, The hybrid campus: Three major shifts for the post-COVID university, Deloitte Insights, 2021
Jonathan Fry, Samantha Fisher, Post-pandemic higher ed: ushering in innovation, Accenture interview series, 2021
How to submit
Start your submission by clicking on the START button on this page and answering a few questions.
Contact
If you have questions about this Challenge, completing your submission or using this site, please reach out to hello@hscnext.com.
[1] Pitchbook: Emerging Tech Research; Vertical Snapshot: EdTech, 2020
Terms & Conditions
Values:
This Innovation Challenge will be conducted in accordance with HSC core values:
- Serve others first – encourage growth, well-being and success of each other and people we serve
- Integrity – uphold the highest ethical standards
- Respect – treat everyone with dignity and compassion
- Collaboration – work together to achieve shared goals
- Be Visionary – create innovative solutions in the pursuit of excellence
General:
The UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth (“HSC”) is sponsoring the Health Science EdTech Innovation Challenge (“Challenge”) to stimulate ideas for innovation in the virtual education experience for postgraduate students at a health science center. Ideas with the most promising potential for innovation will advance to a competition where innovators with the top ideas will be awarded funding, resources and mentors to help them take the Best Next Step with their ideas. For background information, submission deadlines and other Challenge details, see the specific challenge website here.
The Challenge will be managed by the HSC Next team using the online platform at https://www.hscnext.com (“Platform”). The Challenge, and your participation in it, is governed by these Innovation Challenge Terms & Conditions (“Terms”). Participants agree to be bound by these Terms upon submitting a Challenge entry through the Platform. HSC may revise these Terms at any time during the course of the Challenge to provide additional information or to improve the quality of the Challenge. Unanticipated issues that arise may require modifications to these Terms. HSC reserves the right to revise these Terms as it, in its sole discretion, deems necessary. All participants will be notified of revisions in a timely manner.
Please send any questions about this challenge and/or feedback regarding these Terms to hello@hscnext.com.
Common Qs about this Challenge...
Who is this for?
Can I submit more than one idea?
How do I get started?
Access the resources tab for Tools and Stories that have been curated to inform and inspire innovation. Click the "Start" button on this page any time to submit your idea.
Can I work with a team?
What is the time commitment?
Who will be judging the entries?
When will I hear back?