Blended undergraduate orthodontics course with alternating remote and in-class lectures plus Moodle self-guided materials¶

Design · All designs
Evidence · 2 claims (1 for, 1 mixed) · 1 study (1 causal), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description¶

A mandatory third-year orthodontics course at the University of Helsinki delivered 19 theoretical lectures to 51 students, with nine live online lectures on Zoom, one video-recorded lecture, and the remainder in-class, using the same teaching staff for both formats. The Moodle platform supplied "additional reading material, videos, and interactive HTML5 educational game contents" for 11 sessions with activity-completion tracking, and learning objectives followed Bloom's taxonomy. The summative examination used 38 newly written single-best-answer multiple-choice questions completed in-class under Safe Examination Browser.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

Handout material summarizing the main points was provided for all lectures; missed mandatory lectures required a written assignment verifying the learning objectives.

Constraints¶

Lecture delivery modes were allocated in an alternating pattern rather than randomized, which the authors identify as a source of possible allocation bias.

Target Learners¶

third-year undergraduate dental students

Learning Goals¶

orthodontic theory: craniofacial growth, occlusion development, malocclusion etiology and classification, diagnosis, cephalometrics, and management of developing dentition

Claims¶

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

Arponen Heidi, Juuri Emma. (2026). Student Preference on Teaching Mode and the Impact of Remote Teaching on Academic Performance in Undergraduate Orthodontics Course, a Follow‐Up Study. Journal of Dental Education. https://doi.org/10.1002/jdd.13995

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`title`	`Blended undergraduate orthodontics course with alternating remote and in-class lectures plus Moodle self-guided materials`
`description`	`A mandatory third-year orthodontics course at the University of Helsinki delivered 19 theoretical lectures to 51 students, with nine live online lectures on Zoom, one video-recorded lecture, and the remainder in-class...`
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`generated`	by `process:settle-candidates` on `2026-11-05`
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