Geração de ambientes virtuais de ensino-aprendizagem para cursos baseados na realização de projetos

Abstract

The high rates of failure and avoidance in computing courses become a limiting factor for the development of several professional areas, making the supply of skilled labor scarce. In this sense, game development courses that apply the project-based learning method, to stimulate learning, and the use of virtual tutors, to direct the student in learning, seek to leave the learning environment of computational concepts more attractive and playful. Thus, this work aims to develop and evaluate a system of generation of virtual tutors for profiles of different students of the same class, being able to be applied to distance education or face-to-face teaching. In this way, two prototype tutors were developed and evaluated in order to observe the impact of using more than one tutor format in a class. The results showed that the students had fun during the classes, motivated by the ludic factor linked to the programming classes of games and virtual tutors. This factor allowed the students to present good results during the development of the games, with more than 75% of the students concluding the problems proposed, with the others presenting around 90% of progress to complete the games. Another point observed was that the groups presented a profile distinction in order of 56% to 44% of dispersion among the tutors who more adapted to their profile, suggesting that the application of the generator was welcome, however, other studies are necessary to show more forcefully this presented data.