EPN-V2

ORI3200 Digital Competence and Innovation in Health Course description

Course name in Norwegian
Digital kompetanse og innovasjon i helse
Weight
5.0 ECTS
Year of study
2025/2026
Course history
Curriculum
FALL 2025
Schedule
Programme description

  • Introduction

    The course emphasizes subject-specific digital competence for health education. Society, health services, and education are undergoing extensive digital transformation, which demands individual competence and impacts service organization. For technology to contribute to effective and cohesive health services, current and future healthcare personnel must engage with and utilize digital tools and media safely, critically, and creatively. Emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, challenge traditional methods of performing tasks and organizing services, thus closely linked to service innovation.

  • Learning outcomes

    After completing the course, the student should have the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence: 

    Knowledge

    The student can:

    • explain digital competence and innovation processes in healthcare, as well as how technological solutions can affect service delivery

    Skills

    The student can:

    • contribute to the idea development of service innovation based on health technology or assistive technology, and plan for active user involvement

    General Competence

    The student can:

    • reflect on potential benefits and challenges, including ethical dilemmas, of implementing health technology and assistive technology in health services
    • reflect on responsible use of artificial intelligence in learning and service delivery
    • reflect on the importance of interprofessional collaboration in idea development within health technology or assistive technology

  • Teaching and learning methods

    Lectures, group work, seminars, and self-study. The students will work on a group-based project assignment throughout the course, which includes health technology or assistive technology. Feedback from the course instructor and fellow students.

  • Course requirements

    None.

  • Assessment

    Oral exam in groups of 3-7 students, up to 30 minutes.

  • Permitted exam materials and equipment

    All aids are permitted.

  • Grading scale

    Pass - Fail

  • Examiners

    All answers are assessed by two examiners. An external examiner is used regularly, at a minimum of every third completion of the course. If selecting answers for external evaluation, the external examiner’s assessment of the selected answers shall benefit all students.

  • Overlapping courses

    • 1,5 credits overlap with ORI1070 Technology and Society.
    • 5 credits overlap with FYB3100 and ERGOB1300 Digital Competence and Innovation in Health