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Dental Students’ Attitudes and Perspectives regarding Online Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Cross-sectional, Multi-university Study

OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to evaluate the attitude and perspectives of dental students of four Croatian universities towards online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. MATERIAL AND METHODS: An anonymous internet-based survey was administered to undergraduate dental medicine students at...

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Autores principales: Vražić, Domagoj, Musić, Larisa, Barbarić, Marina, Badovinac, Ana, Plančak, Laura, Puhar, Ivan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of Zagreb School of Dental Medicine, and Croatian Dental Society - Croatian Medical Association 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9873008/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36713269
http://dx.doi.org/10.15644/asc56/4/6
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Musić, Larisa
Barbarić, Marina
Badovinac, Ana
Plančak, Laura
Puhar, Ivan
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Musić, Larisa
Barbarić, Marina
Badovinac, Ana
Plančak, Laura
Puhar, Ivan
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description OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to evaluate the attitude and perspectives of dental students of four Croatian universities towards online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. MATERIAL AND METHODS: An anonymous internet-based survey was administered to undergraduate dental medicine students at the Universities of Zagreb, Rijeka, Split and Osijek. The 29-item questionnaire collected data on students’ demographics, online learning organization and management, and perception of online classes. RESULTS: Five hundred and four participants (85.1% female) took part in the survey. The majority of the participants (63.5%) were from the University of Zagreb. 39.6% of students reported agreement regarding online learning satisfaction. Individual university satisfaction ratings on overall online learning were: Osijek 3.69, Zagreb 3.22, Split 3.05 and Rijeka 2.64. Most students considered that lectures (82.9%) and seminars (78.9%) could be successfully delivered in an online learning format. The online learning format cannot successfully deliver laboratory, preclinical, clinical practicals or clinical clerkship, as agreed by more than 80% of the total student sample. 60% of students consider online learning a valuable alternative to face-to-face instruction. CONCLUSION: Online learning was highly praised for educational formats such as lectures and seminars, and was considered a useful substitute for conventional learning. Conventional practical courses cannot be substituted with online learning. Overall perspective about online learning was mixed among the students of four universities. The findings of the present study can serve to help individual universities address the shortcomings and reinforce the strengths of their OL programs.
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spelling pubmed-98730082023-01-28 Dental Students’ Attitudes and Perspectives regarding Online Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Cross-sectional, Multi-university Study Vražić, Domagoj Musić, Larisa Barbarić, Marina Badovinac, Ana Plančak, Laura Puhar, Ivan Acta Stomatol Croat Original Scientific Papers OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to evaluate the attitude and perspectives of dental students of four Croatian universities towards online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. MATERIAL AND METHODS: An anonymous internet-based survey was administered to undergraduate dental medicine students at the Universities of Zagreb, Rijeka, Split and Osijek. The 29-item questionnaire collected data on students’ demographics, online learning organization and management, and perception of online classes. RESULTS: Five hundred and four participants (85.1% female) took part in the survey. The majority of the participants (63.5%) were from the University of Zagreb. 39.6% of students reported agreement regarding online learning satisfaction. Individual university satisfaction ratings on overall online learning were: Osijek 3.69, Zagreb 3.22, Split 3.05 and Rijeka 2.64. Most students considered that lectures (82.9%) and seminars (78.9%) could be successfully delivered in an online learning format. The online learning format cannot successfully deliver laboratory, preclinical, clinical practicals or clinical clerkship, as agreed by more than 80% of the total student sample. 60% of students consider online learning a valuable alternative to face-to-face instruction. CONCLUSION: Online learning was highly praised for educational formats such as lectures and seminars, and was considered a useful substitute for conventional learning. Conventional practical courses cannot be substituted with online learning. Overall perspective about online learning was mixed among the students of four universities. The findings of the present study can serve to help individual universities address the shortcomings and reinforce the strengths of their OL programs. University of Zagreb School of Dental Medicine, and Croatian Dental Society - Croatian Medical Association 2022-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9873008/ /pubmed/36713269 http://dx.doi.org/10.15644/asc56/4/6 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 License.
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Vražić, Domagoj
Musić, Larisa
Barbarić, Marina
Badovinac, Ana
Plančak, Laura
Puhar, Ivan
Dental Students’ Attitudes and Perspectives regarding Online Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Cross-sectional, Multi-university Study
title Dental Students’ Attitudes and Perspectives regarding Online Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Cross-sectional, Multi-university Study
title_full Dental Students’ Attitudes and Perspectives regarding Online Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Cross-sectional, Multi-university Study
title_fullStr Dental Students’ Attitudes and Perspectives regarding Online Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Cross-sectional, Multi-university Study
title_full_unstemmed Dental Students’ Attitudes and Perspectives regarding Online Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Cross-sectional, Multi-university Study
title_short Dental Students’ Attitudes and Perspectives regarding Online Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Cross-sectional, Multi-university Study
title_sort dental students’ attitudes and perspectives regarding online learning during the covid-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional, multi-university study
topic Original Scientific Papers
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9873008/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36713269
http://dx.doi.org/10.15644/asc56/4/6
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