{"id":294,"date":"2021-10-19T13:33:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T20:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0210\/?p=294"},"modified":"2021-10-19T13:33:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T20:33:38","slug":"thoughts-about-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0210\/thoughts-about-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts about the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

The COVID-19 pandemic forced dental programs which had only ever been face to face to quickly move to online instruction in order to complete the 20\/21 school year.\u00a0 With this sudden shift to online learning, institutions re-evaluated the previously held notion that dental programs could never be taught online because students needed face to face instruction to develop competent clinical skills and the necessary communication skills to have close personal face to face interactions with their patients.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

In 2030, blended or hybrid dental programs have become the norm allowing dental students increased flexibility to do a portion of their studies from home.\u00a0 However, moving to this model required learning institutions to rely on the steady, reliable nature of the LMS as described by Weller (2020) which led to an increased use of learning analytics.\u00a0 With learning analytics, Pelletier et al., (2021) explain that institutions were able to harness the data to respond to student needs early by identifying those who exhibited low engagement or did not perform well on early assessments.\u00a0 By doing so, institutions were able to ensure that there was little to no attrition within cohorts,\u00a0 With the gathering of all this student data issues arose issues of whether it was legal, ethical or both.\u00a0 Zijlstra-Shaw & Stokes (2018) state, \u201cthe issue of what is essential data for tracking learner performance and what is data captured because it is available and <\/span>might<\/span><\/i> be useful in the future presents an issue for the ethical and informed use of student data\u201d (e659).\u00a0 By 2030, institutions had worked through some of the challenges faced early on with the push to blended or hybrid dental programs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

References<\/b><\/p>\n

Pelletier, K., Brown, M., Brooks, D. C., McCormack, M., Reeves, J., Arbino, N., Bozkurt, A., Crawford, S., Czerniewicz, L., Gibson, R., Linder, K., Mason, J., & Mondelli, V. (2021). <\/span>2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report Teaching and Learning Edition<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Weller, M. (2020). 25 Years of Ed Tech<\/i><\/a>. Athabasca University Press.<\/p>\n

Zijlstra-Shaw, S., & Stokes, C. W. (2018). Learning analytics and dental education; choices and challenges. <\/span>European journal of dental education: official journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>22<\/span><\/i>(3), e658-e660.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The COVID-19 pandemic forced dental programs which had only ever been face to face to quickly move to online instruction in order to complete the 20\/21 school year.\u00a0 With this sudden shift to online learning, institutions re-evaluated the previously held notion that dental programs could never be taught online because students needed face to face … Continue reading “Thoughts about the Future”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt523","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}