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Changing Landscapes in Higher Dental Education
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Mansoor, Jamshaid – Journal of Education and Learning, 2020
Skills and development: The way undergraduate dental students have been taught and their methods of learning have evolved over decades. Education methods and needs: Perhaps the most rapid and exponential changes have been in the last two decades with the introduction and utilisation of digital media platforms and social media capabilities.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Dental Schools, Patients, Undergraduate Students
Learning with Web-Based Interactive Objects: An Investigation into Student Perceptions of Effectiveness
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Salajan, Florin D.; Perschbacher, Susanne; Cash, Mindy; Talwar, Reena; El-Badrawy, Wafa; Mount, Greg J. – Computers & Education, 2009
In its efforts to continue the modernization of its curriculum, the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Toronto has developed a series of web-based interactive learning applications. This article presents the production cycle of these new interactive learning objects and the preliminary study conducted to measure the students' perception of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Surveys, Dentistry, Anatomy
Researching Haptics in Higher Education: The Complexity of Developing Haptics Virtual Learning Systems and Evaluating Its Impact on Students' Learning
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San Diego, Jonathan P.; Cox, Margaret J.; Quinn, Barry F. A.; Newton, Jonathan Tim; Banerjee, Avijit; Woolford, Mark – Computers & Education, 2012
hapTEL, an interdisciplinary project funded by two UK research councils from 2007 to 2011, involves a large interdisciplinary team (with undergraduate and post-graduate student participants) which has been developing and evaluating a virtual learning system within an HE healthcare education setting, working on three overlapping strands. Strand 1…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Undergraduate Study, Graduate Students
A Novel Interactive Online Module in a Traditional Curriculum through a Blended Learning Approach
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Gibbard, Leslie Laing; Salajan, Florin – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2009
A unique approach was planned and implemented for undergraduate dental students that would reinforce the principles of removable partial denture (RPD) design. 162 students were grouped according to their year of dental studies (66 second-year students and 96 third-year students) within the Discipline of Prosthodontics at the Faculty of Dentistry,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Dentistry, Teaching Methods, Blended Learning
The Educational Software Design and Evaluation for K-8: Oral and Dental Health Software
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Kabakci, Isil; Birinci, Gurkay; Izmirli, Serkan – Online Submission, 2007
The aim of this study is to inform about the development of the software "Oral and Dental Health" that will supplement the course of Science and Technology for K8 students in the primary school curriculum and to carry out an evaluation study of the software. This software has been prepared for educational purposes. In relation to the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Critiquing the Computer-Aided Design of Dental Prostheses.
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Fitzpatrick, F. J.; And Others – 1994
This paper describes RaPiD, a computer-aided assistant for the design of dental prostheses called removable partial dentures. The user manipulates icons directly to indicate the desired design solution to a given clinical situation. A developing design is represented as a logic database of components in a design; expert rules are applied as…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Design, Computer Assisted Instruction, Criticism, Dental Students