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Colin Campbell
by Colin Campbell on 08/07/21 18:00

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#Covidkeepers of things that have changed as a result of the pandemic that people thought were a better idea. 

Many, many people think it’s a better idea to work digitally from home most of the time than to spend three hours travelling to work to an office that isn’t much fun. 

Many people think working from home is ideal (for them), many businesses don’t think it’s ideal for them. 

The truth is that many of these #covidkeepers are probably 50 percenters which means that half of the time they’re great and half of the time they probably aren’t. 

The same is probably true for online education. 

Some of the benefits of online education are huge and some of them can be summarised as follows: 

  1. It’s generally less expensive. 
  2. It can be done from your own home. 
  3. It can be done out of hours. 
  4. You don’t have to travel. 
  5. It’s better for the environment. 

One of the disadvantages though is that you lose the face-to-face and the fact is that we learn by collaboration and interaction and the face-to-face (at least in some cases) is absolutely essential. 

As we were sat last year through lockdown 1 and lockdown 2 providing digital education for people that couldn’t get here any other way, I didn’t think for a minute that this was the end of our Academy space or it was time to put two new treatment rooms upstairs (I could certainly use those now). 

The fact is that there is space for both of these things and so when it’s feasible and reasonable and appropriate, online education is brilliant but it generally is best if it’s backed up with collaboration and interaction and challenge. 

We were already in the process of setting up what was known as our ‘wicker man’ project where we built a wire scaffold for a course online and then cover it with whatever course is appropriate. 

We’ve already launched an online restorative course for dental implants in straightforward cases and an online digital business course. 

Both of these courses run for 4 weeks of content with an onboarding week at the start and a catch up week at the end. 

They’ve been really successful so far. 

We had roadmapped though any number of these courses to move forwards depending upon demand and the next two courses are ready to role out. 

The most important one of these will be our Online CBCT Course which is based digitally over the same ‘wicker man’ format with a relatively small group, who interact on Slack and Zoom and our online learning management system over a 4 week content period, designed around projects and coaches. 

You’re coached for every project (usually by a different coach each time) and you have a week to get ready at the start and a week to finish up at the end.

Our Online CBCT Course fills the criteria for level 1 and level 2 practitioners to refer and report but it adds a different element where you can interact with your peers and have open discussions and dialectics about what you’re learning and what you’re doing and why. 

It also moves onto a face-to-face three day course (in two parts) which is our CBCT Master Class, which has been running for years but is a competency based CBCT course to take you deeper into CBCT to start to become much more of an expert in the greys and blacks and whites that you’re viewing in a CBCT scan. 

Next up after that is a connect course which is for people who are not Straumann users but are becoming Straumann users and that’s been designed for Straumann themselves and then on from that becomes aesthetic, sinus and IFAL online courses on the ‘wicker man’ format. 

If you’re interested in the restorative dentistry one it’s here and it’s an introduction for people not already restoring or who want to catch up on the restorative principles of implant dentistry. 

If you’re interested in the online business course it’s here and if you’re interested in the new CBCT course it’s here (if you’re a DB Dental customer or a Planmeca customer they might give you a discount on their CBCT). 

 

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