Facilitation of student-staff partnership in development of digital learning tools through a special study module

Robert Allen Mckerlie,Shabana Hudda,Jeremy Bagg,Evelyn Rennie,Ziad Al-Ani,Wendy Mcallan,William Mclean

doi:10.15173/ijsap.v2i1.3235

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Abstract

A student-staff partnership was formed as part of a final year special study module to provide dental students the opportunity to work closely with faculty to produce high-quality e-learning resources in areas of the curriculum identified by the students as particularly difficult. The student-staff team identified the following themes as major influences on the success of the project: student-staff interaction, ownership, managing expectations, time pressures, and co-creation partnership benefits. This partnership resulted in a valuable learning experience for both the students and staff involved. The resource developed was evaluated by junior dental students in second and third year of the five year Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) degree programme at Glasgow Dental School and showed a high degree of acceptability by those in both groups. The quality assurance built into the process has resulted in an e-learning resource that has been incorporated directly into our flipped classroom model for pre-clinical skills teaching.

Highlights

Dentistry is a dynamic clinical profession that is strongly influenced by developments in technology
United Kingdom (UK) university courses that lead to a degree registrable with the General Dental Council (GDC) must satisfy the intended learning outcomes defined in the GDC document “Preparing for Practice” (General Dental Council, 2015)
It was enlightening for the staff members to see the perspective of the students in the package design, and an eyeopener for the students about academic life and the effort that is required to produce effective teaching materials

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Introduction

Dentistry is a dynamic clinical profession that is strongly influenced by developments in technology. During the 2015/2016 academic session, a new SSM about co-creation of e-learning materials was launched, in which small student groups worked with academic staff and a learning technologist to co-create e-learning packages for use by students in earlier years of the course.

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