NÓBREGA, T. E.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6107891454462285; NÓBREGA, Thaynan Escarião da.
Resumo:
The incorporation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) may help
improve the teaching process by to allowing students and professors to have more
interaction and encourage independent learning. This study had three main objectives: to
verify the use of websites as a complementary teaching tool in dental schools courses
within Brazil; to investigate whether the content found in online searches for head and
neck anatomy, using the Google®, is linked to the official webpages of dental schools in
Brazil; and to evaluate the presence and use of ICT as a histology teaching tool in dental
schools in the Midwest (MW), Northeast (NE), South (S) and Southeast (SE) regions of
Brazil. Using the registered addresses in the database of National Institute of Educational
Studies and Research the websites of dental schools in Brazil were accessed and analyzed
to evaluate the use of ICT in teaching. Then using the keywords: "head and neck
anatomy", "facial anatomy," "dental anatomy", "dentistry anatomy" were performed
successive searches via Google® of which the first twenty results for each search were
considered. Simultaneously an online questionnaire, about the use of ICT in education, it
was sent to the responsible professors for the histology discipline in MW, NE, S and SE
regions of Brazil. It was observed that of the 226 dental schools, 202 had dental website,
however, only 21 had open website courses for any user. It was verified that most of the
websites belonged to the courses categorized as Dental Sciences (56%), then Biological
Sciences and Health (29%) and Social and Human Sciences (15%). It was found a higher
number of websites in the Southeast region and that the public schools produced
repositories, unlike the private ones where reference is the most common template of
website (p <0.01). Three websites of anatomy courses were found, but, when an open
search was conducted by Google®, none of these websites was located. For the histology
course were found 18 websites: presenting ICT as figures (30.3%), professor‟s e-mail
(30.3%), texts (9.3%), questionnaires (7.0%), hypertext (4.6%), lesson (4.6%), videos
(4.6%) and other tools (9.3%). It regards to the questionnaires that were sent to the
histology professors, only 8.8% were answered, of these, only one professor had an open
website and five professors have ensured restricted website only to their students. The
other 12 professors, despite of do not have a course website, they considered ICT as
important teaching tools for educational support. It was concluded that the dental schools
in Brazil have underused ICT as complementary teaching material.