Employing disruptive innovation in a nascent undergraduate health policy program

The paper describes disruptive innovation strategies used in the design of a nascent Baccalaureate program in Health Policy and Administration at the Lehigh Valley Campus of The Pennsylvania State University (PSU-LV). FlexLearning, a hybrid course delivery method recently implemented at PSU-LV, is an impetus for the approach, and is the key disruptive innovation. Other innovations include e-portfolios, digital badging, open educational resources, mobile integration, game-based learning and virtual reality simulations. Continuous quality improvement is incorporated into the assessment process to improve program effectiveness and students' competency-based outcomes.

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Work Title Employing disruptive innovation in a nascent undergraduate health policy program
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Creators
  1. Anita Yuskauskas
  2. Dean Shaffer
  3. Eileen Grodziak
Keyword
  1. CQI
  2. FlexLearning
  3. Blended learning
  4. Disruptive innovation
  5. Health Policy and Administration
  6. Penn State
  7. Competency-based learning
  8. Competency
  9. Healthcare
  10. Undergraduate
License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives)
Work Type Article
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  1. Journal of Health Administration Education
Publication Date September 1, 2015
Deposited January 29, 2024

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    • CQI, FlexLearning, Blended learning, Disruptive innovation, Health Policy and Administration, Penn State, Competency-based learning, Competency, Healthcare, Undergraduate
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    • 2015-10-01
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