Case Study: books in the VitalBookTM format in Dental Education
For over five years, American dental students have received their curriculum materials - including all their textbooks – on their computers through a remarkable digital publishing platform: the VitalSourceTM Bookshelf. Bookshelf integrates publisher and school materials and makes them portable, searchable, and interactive.
Now, for one-in-four American dental students, the best possible resources are just a click away in their VitalSourceTM Bookshelf.
More effective resources
For students and faculty at the nation’s largest Dental school, for example, the VitalSourceTM Bookshelf is helping them get what they need the moment they need it.
- Textbooks from all the major dental publishers
- Course packs
- Lecture slides
- Assessments
- Much more
Why it works
Each school determines what resources are delivered, based on their own curriculum needs and teaching methods. No two schools’ deliveries are ever the same.
And for students, the resources never expire, promoting life-long learning and giving students a practical, comprehensive library to take with them into residency and practice.
Cost-effective digital resource development
Schools choose and organize their resources, and students are able to carry all four years of their course materials with them at all times. Combined with the teaching and learning tools in the VitalSourceTM Bookshelf software, it is the most powerful resource currently offered in health science education.
In an recent article in the Journal of Dental, researchers from several dental schools looked into the effectiveness of student laptop programs in general, and VitalBookTM aspects in particular: