A health promotion web application for virtual teacher training

Abstract

The training of the staff in study centres is scarce around oral health, being the ICT valid tools to improve it. Objective: to design a web app for the immediate treatment of traumatic oral injuries in schoolchildren. Method: a virtual protocol about the immediate treatment given to children in the event of a traumatic dental injury was designed. The contents follow an instructional design with a logical order of appearance. Results: the app was planned together with ICT analysts, following the compatibility demands of browsers and information safety and the PHP-Laravel programming language was applied and the MySQL database engine. Discussion: The digital environment or educative spaces are the objects or gadgets of a digital nature in a concrete scenario, social and culturally built, with the purpose of favouring valuable learning experiences. Conclusions: a training app was created, promoting de usefulness of open educational resources for the oral health promotion.

Keywords

• Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
• Health promotion
• Dental trauma
• Ceibal Network