Which digital learning strategies do undergraduate dentistry students favor? A questionnaire survey at a German university.

IF 1.5 Q2 EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES
Anne Brigitte Kruse, Milena Isailov-Schöchlin, Marianne Giesler, Petra Ratka-Krüger
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Background: The development in teaching dental education toward ever greater digitization has gained enormous momentum in the last 2 years due to the pandemic. However, acceleration is not synonymous with improvement, especially from the learners' point of view. Therefore, the aim of this survey among students of dentistry was to determine which digital learning strategies and which media are preferred.

Method: Undergraduate students of clinical semesters (6th to 9th) in dental medicine during at the University of Freiburg participated in an online-survey. Questions were asked about personal learning strategies for and experience with using digital media for private and educational reasons. Furthermore, students were asked which digital learning formats they preferred for different learning phases.

Results: Students (N=148) are experienced in using digital media for learning. They prefer classical media (such as textbooks and lectures) for acquiring basic theoretical knowledge and mention digital teaching formats more in relation to practical training and complex treatment procedures. 67% prefer learning alone and 90% rate visualizations as helpful for learning. 78% report, that they feel well supported in the learning process by digital media and 83% agree that e-learning offerings are a quality factor for university teaching. 82% state e.g. that the growing range of online content allows a more flexible approach to face to face-teaching, enriches classroom teaching (78%) and helps organize one's own study (79%).

Conclusion: Students have a positive attitude towards the use of digital media, especially when it comes to having more time available for practical exercises. They also see an advantage in the fact that through the use of digital media, lectures can be organized more flexibly and also the organization of their studies can be optimized. New digital teaching media should be created based on these results. It is important to consider which digital formats seem suitable for which content during different semesters.

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牙科本科学生喜欢哪些数字化学习策略?德国一所大学的问卷调查。
背景:在过去的两年里,由于大流行的影响,牙科教育朝着更大程度的数字化发展取得了巨大的动力。然而,加速并不等同于提高,尤其是从学习者的角度来看。因此,本次调查的目的是确定哪种数字学习策略和哪种媒体是首选的牙科学生。方法:对弗莱堡大学口腔医学临床学期(6 ~ 9)的本科生进行在线调查。问题是关于个人学习策略以及出于私人和教育原因使用数字媒体的经验。此外,学生们还被问及他们在不同的学习阶段更喜欢哪种数字学习格式。结果:148名学生在使用数字媒体进行学习方面经验丰富。在获取基础理论知识时,他们更倾向于使用经典媒体(如教科书和讲座),而在实践训练和复杂的治疗过程中,他们更多地提到数字化教学形式。67%的人喜欢独自学习,90%的人认为可视化对学习有帮助。78%的受访者表示,他们觉得数字媒体在学习过程中提供了很好的支持,83%的受访者认为电子学习产品是大学教学的一个质量因素。82%的人表示,例如,越来越多的在线内容使得面对面教学的方法更加灵活,丰富了课堂教学(78%),并有助于组织自己的学习(79%)。结论:学生对数字媒体的使用持积极态度,特别是当有更多的时间用于实践练习时。他们还看到了一个优势,即通过使用数字媒体,可以更灵活地组织讲座,也可以优化他们的学习组织。应在此基础上创建新的数字教学媒体。重要的是要考虑在不同的学期中哪种数字格式似乎适合哪种内容。
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GMS Journal for Medical Education
GMS Journal for Medical Education EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES-
CiteScore
3.40
自引率
12.50%
发文量
30
审稿时长
25 weeks
期刊介绍: GMS Journal for Medical Education (GMS J Med Educ) – formerly GMS Zeitschrift für Medizinische Ausbildung – publishes scientific articles on all aspects of undergraduate and graduate education in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy and other health professions. Research and review articles, project reports, short communications as well as discussion papers and comments may be submitted. There is a special focus on empirical studies which are methodologically sound and lead to results that are relevant beyond the respective institution, profession or country. Please feel free to submit qualitative as well as quantitative studies. We especially welcome submissions by students. It is the mission of GMS Journal for Medical Education to contribute to furthering scientific knowledge in the German-speaking countries as well as internationally and thus to foster the improvement of teaching and learning and to build an evidence base for undergraduate and graduate education. To this end, the journal has set up an editorial board with international experts. All manuscripts submitted are subjected to a clearly structured peer review process. All articles are published bilingually in English and German and are available with unrestricted open access. Thus, GMS Journal for Medical Education is available to a broad international readership. GMS Journal for Medical Education is published as an unrestricted open access journal with at least four issues per year. In addition, special issues on current topics in medical education research are also published. Until 2015 the journal was published under its German name GMS Zeitschrift für Medizinische Ausbildung. By changing its name to GMS Journal for Medical Education, we wish to underline our international mission.
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