Second Life for Dental Education

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dc.contributor.authorPhillips, Jane
dc.contributor.authorBerge, Zane L.
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-06T17:51:03Z
dc.date.available2019-11-06T17:51:03Z
dc.date.issued2009-07-29
dc.description.abstractDental education strives to balance the use of traditional teaching methods with technologically advanced systems to meet the needs of an ever-expanding curriculum. Establishing distance education technologies is an identified goal of dental education. Technologically adept students desire meaningful and efficient distance education instruction. A majority of preclinical instruction is devoted to acquiring psychomotor skills and methods of patient care delivery, and simulation is a pedagogical instructional tool used for acquisition of preclinical skills. The purpose of this article is to review the technological tool Second Life as a medium for total virtual patient simulation. Second Life demonstrates promise for enhancing current standardized instruction and competency testing and for promoting distance education. As an emerging technological tool, Second Life is valuable as an adjunct to preclinical teaching methods in virtual problem-solving and communication prior to student clinicians’ treating patients in the clinical setting and as a resource for continuing dental education for practitioners. Because some degree of consistency exists in the curriculum objectives of preclinical patient care and assessment in dental and dental hygiene education, within the context of this article the term “dental education” refers to both professions of dentistry and dental hygiene.en_US
dc.description.urihttp://www.jdentaled.org/content/73/11/1260en_US
dc.format.extent5 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2ab8g-3cgu
dc.identifier.citationJane Phillips, Zane L. Berge; Second Life for Dental Education; Journal of Dental Education Nov 2009, 73 (11) 1260-1264; http://www.jdentaled.org/content/73/11/1260en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/16205
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Dental Education Associationen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
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dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Graduate School
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Faculty Collection
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dc.rights©2009 American Dental Association
dc.subjecteducational technologyen_US
dc.subjectdental educationen_US
dc.subjectcomputer simulationen_US
dc.subjectvirtual worldsen_US
dc.subjectSecond Lifeen_US
dc.subjectUMBC Instructional System Design
dc.titleSecond Life for Dental Educationen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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