Endodontics at the undergraduate level with presence teaching and distance support: a motivational strategy for individual study

• Autor(a) principal: Skelton-Macedo, Mary Caroline
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: Basilio, Cristiany Castro, Cardoso Alves, Nilden Carlos, Marques, Viviane Pereira, Menéndez-Castillero, Moacyr Ely, Cardoso Alves, Rielson José
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista da ABENO (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revabeno.emnuvens.com.br/revabeno/article/view/1415
• topic: Distance learning. Education; dental.; Educação a distância. Educação em Odontologia.

This study evaluated the performances of 29 students from the first Endodontics class that was given through presence teaching and distance support, based on the TelEduc educational platform, at the São Leopoldo Mandic Dentistry College, Campinas, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. The college offered a desktop computer for each student. The developed didactic material included the professor’s slides, printed summaries of lessons, links to sites with approved contents, frequently asked questions, guidelines for developing papers, tests and interactive animated tutorials de veloped for the proposed medium. The students’ performance results were compared to the number of times they accessed the didactic material. In the beginning of the course, students were recommended to access the didactic material at least 2 times weekly, totalling 40 acccess instances at the end of the 20 weeks of the subject. The approved students reached an average of 91.5 access instances, representing an access count 128.75% greater than the minimum required.