Helping Experienced Professionals Become Tech Savvy for Lifelong Learning.

As technology becomes more prevalent in our lives, any professional's practice and lifelong learning becomes more dependent on it. At the University of British Columbia, Faculty of Dentistry it was noticed that some very experienced and accomplished dentists teaching on a part-time basis were becoming increasingly uncomfortable in the Faculty's high tech clinic. This has resulted in a disconnect between these clinical instructors and the dental students. We designed a continuing education course for dentists incorporating technology acceptance theory and adult learning theory with the aim of showing them how the technology could work for them. An iClicker survey administered throughout the course determined that this approach had allowed these dentists to move forward with their use of technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]