Dental Internal Anatomy in electronic exercise: teaching-learning process evaluation

Objectives: The Dental Internal Anatomy must involve creativity to provide ultra structural view to dentistry graduation student. Three-dimensional images build this view. An excellent choice to induce the student to dental three-dimensional image is design and cartoons when go along with photograph image, allow interactive actions. Methods: It was developed an exercises electronic book with problems to solve about Dental Internal Anatomy to Endodontics interest. Many interactive tools was used: sounds, cartoons, videos, animations and images. The didactic contents can be available in class room or at the electronic book. The evaluation can be known at real time or at the final project . The use in Intranet can provides the evaluation to the professor at real time. The attempts to fill the blanks, errors percentage and time to fill will be known by the professor. Results: The student do not pass to another exercise if not complete correctly the anterior step. This allows reinforced the information. It was done at a brazilian software to multimedia develop (VisualClass®). Conclusions: The interface production of electronic exercises at this software is easy and quicly and the contents can be available by Intranet, Internet, CD Rom or at the class room. The evaluation is at real time and the students and professor will known the results.