title: Dentistry students' perceptions of learning management systems.
abstract: This paper reports an exploratory survey study about students' perceptions of learning management systems (LMS) at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Sydney. Two hundred and fifty-four students enrolled in the Bachelor of Dentistry and the Bachelor of Oral Health programmes participated in an online survey aimed at exploring their beliefs and attitudes as well as their preferences for eLearning tools. Results indicated a strong preference of students for using LMSs as resource repositories rather than for higher-order learning activities such as online discussion forums. This finding holds importance for consideration of the development of the educational resources modalities that support development of essential graduate attributes such as information literacy and collaborative learning.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. bhandal@efs.mq.edu.au
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Handal
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Groenlund
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gerzina
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003142:Communication; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003197:Computer Literacy; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004497:Education, Dental; D034742:Electronic Mail; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D019212:Multimedia; D009862:Online Systems; D013335:Students, Dental / Q000523:psychology*; D013664:Teaching Materials; D055815:Young Adult