Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, King Khalid University, College of Dentistry, Abha 62529, Saudi Arabia.
Department of Periodontics and Community Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, King Khalid University, Abha 62529, Saudi Arabia.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Oct 7;19(19):12825. doi: 10.3390/ijerph191912825.
Blackboard is a collaborative virtual learning tool used for higher learning that has been found to be an effective and efficient means of interactions between teachers and students and offers effective educational information management. The aim of this research work is to assess the preclinical and clinical dental students' perception of Blackboard Collaborate as a quality teaching and learning tool as well as to find out areas that might appear as barriers to quality teaching and learning. This cross-sectional study was conducted online using survey monkey involving 245 dental students who had participated in the virtual classroom lectures during the pandemic with 18 students not completing the survey. The survey instrument was a nine-item questionnaire that included the age, sex, and year of study of the students as well as previous exposure to online lectures. The data collated was analyzed using IBM Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) Statistics for windows version 22. Among 245 respondents that were enrolled in the study, 227 respondents completed the survey, of which 58.1% (n = 132) were male while 41.9% (n = 95) were females. Of the 227 respondents that completed this study, 74.8% (n = 170) of them experienced minimum to moderate technical problems regarding connectivity during the online sessions while 1.8% (n = 4) of the respondents experienced very severe technical problems. The majority of the respondents 54.2% (n = 123) support the continuation of online lectures even after the pandemic. In conclusion, we found a positive perception of our respondents to online lectures using Blackboard Collaborate. Internet connectivity as well as a decline in the comprehension of the lectures as compared to face-to-face learning were found as barriers to online learning.
黑板是一种协作式虚拟学习工具，用于高等教育，已被证明是教师与学生之间互动的有效且高效的方式，并提供了有效的教育信息管理。本研究旨在评估临床前和临床牙科学生对 Blackboard Collaborate 作为优质教学和学习工具的看法，以及发现可能成为优质教学和学习障碍的领域。本横断面研究通过在线调查猴子进行，涉及 245 名曾在疫情期间参加虚拟课堂讲座的牙科学生，其中 18 名学生未完成调查。调查工具是一份九项的问卷，包括学生的年龄、性别和学习年限，以及之前是否参加过在线讲座。收集的数据使用 IBM 统计软件包（SPSS）进行分析。在 245 名被纳入研究的受访者中，有 227 名完成了调查，其中 58.1%（n = 132）为男性，41.9%（n = 95）为女性。在完成这项研究的 227 名受访者中，74.8%（n = 170）的受访者在在线课程期间经历了最低到中度的连接技术问题，而 1.8%（n = 4）的受访者经历了非常严重的技术问题。大多数受访者 54.2%（n = 123）支持在疫情结束后继续进行在线讲座。总之，我们发现我们的受访者对使用 Blackboard Collaborate 进行在线讲座的看法是积极的。与面对面学习相比，网络连接以及对讲座理解的下降被认为是在线学习的障碍。
