Handbook of Dental Education Technology

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of dental education with the incorporation of digital technologies. It covers dentistry in academia as it embraces the rapid changes in technological landscapes in the 21st century. Every aspect of academia such as curriculum design and review, student evaluation and assessment, and teaching and learning methods must match the current demand and need. In general, this is not easy for those who are primarily focused on clinical practices and dental professions. Therefore this book provides extensive, important, and selected topics related to new technologies in dental education and training, it is a useful reference for students, academics, and clinical dentists.

List of contents

Tertiary Education: Philosophy and Purpose- Dental Education: Past, Present, and Future- Professional Standards and regulations in Dental Education- Formats for written examinations questions & standard setting- Continuing professional development- Clinical Assessment: Modes and Methods- Comparison of Dental Education in Different parts of the World- Curriculum Development and Review: standards and protocols- Teaching Remote surgery: Potential applications and challenges- AI-controlled teaching and learning: Challenges and Benefits- Educational standards in the Digital Era.- Module-based and Semester-based curricula.- Problem-based learning.- Treatment strategies in Dentistry: Core concepts and future issues.- Comparison of AI and Experts in Peer-assisted learning.- Depth and Dimensions of Research in Dentistry.- Ethical standards in Dental Research.- Social Media in Dental Education.- Workplace-based assessments and Portfolio-based assessments.- Team-based learning and Task-basedlearning for clinical teaching.- E-Professionalism in Dental Education.- Emotional Intelligence in Dental Education.- Dental Education Beyond the -walls of the Dental School.- Designing and validating assessments in dental education.- Soft skills in Dental Education.- Basic Sciences in Dental Education.- Competency-based test.- Teaching and Learning Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in the Digital Era.

About the author

Mohammad Tariqur Rahman, Ph.D., is a Professor and Deputy Executive Director (Research and Innovation) at the International Institute of Public Policy and Management (INPUMA), University of Malaya (UM). Earlier, he served as a Professor and Associate Dean of Continuing Education at the Faculty of Dentistry at UM. He holds a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Microbiology from the University of Dhaka. He began his academic career at Khulna University and was the Founding Chairman of the Department of Pharmacy at East West University, Dhaka. Before serving at the International Islamic University Malaysia, Prof. Tariq conducted postdoctoral research in Neuroscience at the University of Fukui.
Prof. Tariq published extensively in the fields of oral microbiology, immunology, metallo-biochemistry, stem cell biology, and scientometrics. He has published extensively and has served in editorial roles, including Executive Editor of Annals of Dent UM, Chief Editor of Bangladesh Journal of Microbiology, and Associate Editor of Biological Trace Element Research. He was the Founding President of the Malaysian Society for Oral Microbiologists and Oral Immunologists (MySOMOI).
In addition to academic publishing, Prof. Tariq is the lead editor of Immunology of Dentistry (John Wiley & Sons Ltd.). He also contributes opinion pieces to news portals in Malaysia and Bangladesh.
Prof. Dr. Noor Lide Abu Kassim completed B.A. Hons (English Language) in 1989, M.Ed. (Curriculum Studies) in 2002, and PhD (Psychometrics and Education Evaluation) in 2007 from University of Science Malaysia. She is a recipient of the meritorious Australian Endeavour Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Award (2004) from the Australian Government, which supported her doctoral work at the James Cook University, Australia. Prof Noor Lide is currently the Director of the International Islamic University Press (IIUM Press) and was Dean of the Faculty of Education, IIUM from August 2021 to July 2023. She was also the Director of the Centre for Professional Development, IIUM from June 2010 to September 2011 and from October 2019 to 30 June 2021. She was a consultant for the Malaysian Ministry of Science and Technology for the National Survey on Research and Development Fiscal Year 2006, The Malaysian Public Awareness of Science and Technology 2008, National Survey for Research, Development and Innovation Activities in Private and Public Sectors of Saudi Arabia Fiscal Year 2009 and the Malaysian Bibliometric Study 2001-2017. She taught at the Faculty of Dentistry, IIUM and at the Faculty of Nursing Umm Al-Qura, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. She is currently teaching at the Faculty of Education, IIUM. She was a statistics consultant at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya from 2013 to 2015. Prof Noor Lide has been working with academics in different sub-disciplines of Dentistry for close to 20 years. She has published in the Annals of Dentistry, European Journal of Dental Education, Journal of Dental Education, BMC Public Health, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, American Journal of Orthodontics & Dentofacial Orthopaedics, Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, and Quintessence International.

Summary

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of dental education with the incorporation of digital technologies. It covers dentistry in academia as it embraces the rapid changes in technological landscapes in the 21st century. Every aspect of academia such as curriculum design and review, student evaluation and assessment, and teaching and learning methods must match the current demand and need. In general, this is not easy for those who are primarily focused on clinical practices and dental professions. Therefore this book provides extensive, important, and selected topics related to new technologies in dental education and training, it is a useful reference for students, academics, and clinical dentists.

Product details

• Assisted by: Noor Lide Abu Kassim (Editor), Mohammad Tariqur Rahman (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.08.2026
• EAN: 9789819524082
• ISBN: 978-981-9524-08-2
• No. of pages: 1100
• Illustrations: Approx. 1100 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Dentistry; Künstliche Intelligenz, Lehrmittel, Lerntechnologien, E-Learning, Artificial Intelligence, dentistry, maxillofacial surgery, Computational Intelligence, Digital Education and Educational Technology, Dental Simulations, Dentistry AI, Dental foundation training, Dentistry Big Data, Teaching Remote Dental Surgery, Dental Problem-Based Learning, Digital Dental Training, Dental Technology