Pathology

Business

Disease

Online learning

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Multimedia

Medical education

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

Pandemic

Outbreak

Mathematics education

Blended learning

Marketing

Psychology

Virology

Educational technology

E learning

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

Computer science

Dental education

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Computer-assisted web interviewing

Medicine

Journal of Dental Sciences

Online learning has been utilized in the world to continue educational activities in dentistry, which was severely affected by the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The purpose of this study was aimed to evaluate the effect of online learning during the pandemic of COVID-19 in different dental schools of different countries in Asia by the questionnaire survey. Mantel-Haenszel chi-square tests were used to analyze the difference between dental schools with and without shutdown. A questionnaire-based online survey was used to evaluate the online learning effect on undergraduate students in 13 dental schools of 7 Asia countries and regions. For the question that blended learning class has better learning efficiency, the agreement rate was significantly higher in the students (80.3%) from the dental schools that did not suspend face-to-face education activities than in the students (50.3%) from the dental school that was shut down. Within the limitation of this study, it is concluded that a combination of physical and online classes in terms of blended learning courses will be the future trend for dental education.

Effect of online learning for dental education in asia during the pandemic of COVID-19