Future plans

As UDENTE is not a for-profit organisation, it will continue to reinvest in further expansion of its portfolio of quality assured dental learning materials and leading-edge technology, which integrates seamlessly with that of the dental schools it serves.

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. 

• Access to extensive HEDI multimedia collection from University of Adelaide Dental School
• Oral Pathology
• Further Publisher e-Textbook uploads (from selection of 32 titles available)
• Radiology 3rd year
• Children's Dentistry
• MClinDent modules

• Major collections of 35mm slides being scanned and tagged, including  from King’s College London: Oral Medicine and Pathology (Professor Rod Cawson, courtesy of Elsevier), Paedodontics. (Professor Graham Roberts) and Oral Surgery (Professor John Langdon)

Technological developments

• e-shop – an important market place for allied industry and additional academic contributions
• Timetabling version 2 – brings four handed dental timetabling to the clinics
• Curriculum mapping – spearheaded by the Faculty of Dentistry University of Adelaide
• Communications tools – Building on the basic chat and bulletin boards to facilitate secure videoconferencing
• Project Wonderland. 3D world are part of the young ‘Y’ generations world. 3D environments will be created to wrap around the functionality of UDENTE
• Enhanced database development to support enhanced multimedia and haptic interfaces