A cross-sectional study to determine factors affecting dental and medical students' preference for virtual learning during the COVID-19 outbreak.

ABSTRACT: Virtual "online" teaching has been adopted by most universities around the world during the COVID-19 outbreak. This study aims to investigate the factors that might affect students' preference for virtual learning. Since a second wave of such pandemic is expected to occur, professors and teaching assistants may want to be prepared and aware to create an effective virtual learning environment for students. Using an online survey questionnaire, a total of 488 students in their basic science years of study (first to the third year) who are enrolled in dental and medical college responded to the online survey. The authors utilized a binary logistic regression model to estimate the impact of the nine explanatory variables (gender, student's year of study, accessibility of online tools, class en

SUBMITTER: Al-Azzam N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7728427 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature