Integrating Wiki Technology into Predoctoral Teaching

The Implant Dentistry Course Experience

AliMüftü, D.M.D.

Predoctoral Dental Implant Education

2nd year • 52-hour simulated patient care format

– Spring semester– 13 hours lectures, – 39 hours to specific simulated procedures

3rd and 4th years• implant services in the predoctoral clinic

– -single and multiple tooth replacements limited to a maximum of 4 implants/arch,

– 2-implant-retained mandibular overdentures and implant assisted removable partial dentures

participates

Surfing the web

“Taking the board exam”

Studying for the board

exam

participates

Working on other lab projects

Lost Freshman in sophomore

class

Does this look familiar?

• “Human attention tends to wander.. students are human… therefore, students' attention will wander “• One of the primary causes of wandering

attention and even boredom is density of material--too many major topics, too many complex PowerPoint slides and too many examples result in information overload.

TALK ABOUT TEACHING AND LEARNINGThrough the Shadow of the Valley How to Retain Attention in the Classroomby Larry M. Robbinshttp://www.upenn.edu/almanac/v50/n15/teaching.html

• Research on cognition and retention has shown that any class period or "learning episode" has periods of "prime-time" and "down-time“.

• Prime-time, when students are at their sharpest (usually the first ten to fifteen minutes of a class), is appropriate for introducing new information or coming to closure on old material.

(Sousa, How the Brain Learns, 1995, Bligh, What's the Use of Lectures?, 2000).

• Simulated Patient Care– Exams– Problem-based learning– Evidence-based practice– Projects, Lectures, …

• Clinical Experience – Demystify implants– Learn from each other

• Calibration• Improve communication• Reduce work load• Improve quality• Work as a team• …

Students Faculty

Continuing Education

‘The Implant Wiki’

Access through TUSK or through “dentalimplantopedia.uit.tufts.edu”

• Who can access to the site?• What is in it?• How was it received?• What is next?

prosthopedia.com

What YouTube Says About Wikis?“What if I make a mistake?”

"If you build it, they will come."

Implant Wiki Introduction Video

Wiki activity by month

90-9-1 Theory

“explains the percentage of a wiki's participation, breaking it down as readers being the highest percent, with minor contributors composing the 9 percent and enthusiastic and active contributors composing 1 percent of the total participants in a wiki”