E-content

All content available through UDENTE has been peer reviewed to ensure that it is both accurate and of a standard that passes the quality assurance test.  UDENTE’s peer reviewers, all experts in their field, are members of its Content Management Group, which has responsibility for identifying the content development priorities, and then selecting the topics, commissioning and reviewing them. 

Once successfully through this process, the materials are made available through the digital repository.  UDENTE’s e-learning content repository is made up of the following elements:

1. The ‘UDENTE’ Collection of commissioned learning objects comprising of core courses.
2. The ‘Reference’ Collection of selected learning materials, which have been selected to enhance the learning materials which are the core courses. This selection includes an image bank and reference materials from published sources, including electronic textbooks.

Learning materials have been developed or modified for online presentation using instructional design techniques, and an extensive review process has been employed to ensure quality is maintained, using an editorial board of recognised subject experts.

A key undertaking by UDENTE is the ongoing review of all its materials to ensure that it continues to reflect the most up-to-date thinking and practices within the dental professions as well as further enriching its content.

Current learning materials

To date, the following learning materials have been made available, but UDENTE will continue to add to these over the coming months and years.

• Minor Oral Surgery - video covering basic procedures (“A Question of Access“)
• Periodontology – self-directed teaching material (module of 8 sections - “Assessing the Periodontium” )
• Dental Radiology - Fundamentals course (complete King's Year 1 curriculum)
• Dental Radiology - around 600 tagged images and related diagrams
• Elsevier e-Textbook chapters (Essentials of Radiology and Radiography, Whaites, 4ed)
• Therapeutics – “Prescription Game” plus additional scenarios
• Pain Consultations – various video clips covering Temporo-mandibular joint disorder, Burning Mouth Syndrome, Trigeminal neuralgia and depression
• Dental Nursing course
• Oral Disease and Therapeutics – complete course
• e-Textbook chapter selections, from Reed-Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell publications
• Emergencies in the dental clinic
• Geriodontology - 5 case studies videos (“Adding Life to Years“)

Planned learning materials

In keeping with its commitment to enrich its offering, the following learning materials are planned for release during the course of 2010. 

• Facial Pain Management - complete course 
• Oral Pathology
• Further Publisher e-Textbook uploads (from selection of 32 published titles available)
• Radiology 3rd year
• Access to extensive online course material from University of Adelaide Dental School
• Children's Dentistry
• MClinDent modules, including Aesthetic Dentistry
• Major collections of 35mm slides - scanned and tagged images.

See also the Web Demonstration section, providing examples of learning objects from various dental topics.