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EDUMECENTRO
On-line version ISSN 2077-2874
Abstract
GUTIERREZ GAYOSO, Giovanna; QUISPE CHAUCA, Jorge Luis and ALVITES-HUAMANI, Cleofé Genoveva. Moodle: tool for production, learning and interaction in the training of the future dental surgeon. EDUMECENTRO [online]. 2022, vol.14, e2434. Epub Dec 30, 2022. ISSN 2077-2874.
Background:
the Moodle platform offers knowledge to the future dental surgeon in training, if its tools are used correctly, which constitutes its contribution to virtual education.
Objective:
to know the level of use of the Moodle platform in the training of the future dental surgeon, according to age, sex and semester.
Methods:
a descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out in the Dentistry school of a private university in the city of Cusco-Peru, in the month of November 2021. Theoretical methods were used: analysis-synthesis and systemic; Empirical ones: a questionnaire structured in three dimensions to measure the main variable, which was applied to 52 students of the different semesters; and mathematical-statistical through which the results were obtained.
Results:
in the data processing it was obtained that dimensions 1 and 3 presented an efficient level, and 2, avarage. It was found that the younger students and the females were the ones who had a higher level of use and efficiency in this platform in the teaching-learning process in all dimensions.
Conclusions:
Moodle is an adequate platform for the training of future dental surgeons; it is a didactic tool that contributes to their learning through virtual education.
Keywords : schools, dental; learning; education, distance; information technologies and communication projects; education, medical.