Innovations in teaching and learning strategies to improve the effectiveness of using haptic simulators in higher education for dental students and other health care disciplines

Margaret J. Cox; Barry F. Quinn; Jonathan P. San Diego; Jesal Patel; Kiran Gawali; Mark Woolford

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-74310-3_40

Innovations in teaching and learning strategies to improve the effectiveness of using haptic simulators in higher education for dental students and other health care disciplines

Margaret J. Cox, Barry F. Quinn, Jonathan P. San Diego, Jesal Patel, Kiran Gawali, Mark Woolford^*

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King's College London

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Abstract

This paper briefly reviews the teaching and assessment strategies developed over ten years of trials with over 1200 undergraduate students to make effective use of virtual haptic simulators in higher education disciplines such as dentistry and nursing. In the last five years (2012–17) these strategies have evolved to include a range of technology enhanced learning resources (TEL) in a blended learning setting to assess the performance progression of students’ learning cavity preparation skills. Every students’ performance outcomes were retrieved from the hapTEL simulator log files for each task including the percentage of caries, healthy tissue and pulp removed. The use of a blend of video recorded short lectures followed by face to face teaching, pair working, haptic, visual images and sound feedback, and individual student assessment record keeping showed an improved reliability in performance of the work-stations and a consistently higher rate of student’s log files records compared with previous years. Records of students’ performance collected over two years showed that the HapTEL system enabled students to perform better at cavity preparation after practising over two sessions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Tomorrow’s Learning
Subtitle of host publication	Involving Everyone. Learning with and about Technologies and Computing - 11th IFIP TC 3 World Conference on Computers in Education, WCCE 2017, Revised Selected Papers
Publisher	Springer New York LLC
Pages	387-397
Number of pages	11
Volume	515
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319743103
ISBN (Print)	9783319743097
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74310-3_40
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 21 Jan 2017
Event	11th IFIP TC 3 World Conference on Computers and Education, WCCE 2017 - Dublin, Ireland Duration: 3 Jul 2017 → 6 Jul 2017

Publication series

Name	IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Volume	515
ISSN (Print)	1868-4238

Conference

Conference	11th IFIP TC 3 World Conference on Computers and Education, WCCE 2017
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Dublin
Period	3/07/2017 → 6/07/2017

Keywords

Assessment techniques
Blended learning
Clinical skills
Curriculum innovation
Dental education
Haptic simulators
Healthcare professions
Higher education
Technology enhanced learning

UN SDGs

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Cox, M. J., Quinn, B. F., San Diego, J. P., Patel, J., Gawali, K., & Woolford, M. (2017). Innovations in teaching and learning strategies to improve the effectiveness of using haptic simulators in higher education for dental students and other health care disciplines. In Tomorrow’s Learning: Involving Everyone. Learning with and about Technologies and Computing - 11th IFIP TC 3 World Conference on Computers in Education, WCCE 2017, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 515, pp. 387-397). (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Vol. 515). Springer New York LLC. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74310-3_40

Cox, Margaret J. ; Quinn, Barry F. ; San Diego, Jonathan P. et al. / Innovations in teaching and learning strategies to improve the effectiveness of using haptic simulators in higher education for dental students and other health care disciplines. Tomorrow’s Learning: Involving Everyone. Learning with and about Technologies and Computing - 11th IFIP TC 3 World Conference on Computers in Education, WCCE 2017, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 515 Springer New York LLC, 2017. pp. 387-397 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology).

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Cox MJ , Quinn BF , San Diego JP, Patel J, Gawali K, Woolford M. Innovations in teaching and learning strategies to improve the effectiveness of using haptic simulators in higher education for dental students and other health care disciplines. In Tomorrow’s Learning: Involving Everyone. Learning with and about Technologies and Computing - 11th IFIP TC 3 World Conference on Computers in Education, WCCE 2017, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 515. Springer New York LLC. 2017. p. 387-397. (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology). Epub 2017 Jan 21. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-74310-3_40

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