Aprendizagem baseada em projetos e a criação de recursos educacionais digitais nos cursos da faculdade de comunicação social

Abstract

This dissertation is linked to the Post Graduation Program (strict sensu) in Education of the Oeste Paulista University, in the research line Training and Pedagogical Practice of the Professional Teacher. The main objective of this research was to analyse the Project-Based Learning in the development of Digital Educational Resources searching for innovative pedagogical practices, which can contribute to a constructionist, contextualized and meaningful environment (known as CCS), with the mutual participation of teachers and students. To accomplish such objectives, the research adopted a qualitative approach and was carried out as an intervention research, done at the courses of Social Communication Faculty, at a private institution of higher education in the countryside of São Paulo. Data were collected through participant observation and focus group. The first study was carried out aiming to analyse the current panorama of higher education as well as the pedagogical practices trends. Methodology used to accomplish this study was the systematization of information obtained through research of studies published in Brazil in the last seven years, between 2009 and 2016, in the Scielo database (Scientific Electronic Library Online), and IBICT database(Brazilian Institute for Information in Science and Technology). In the second study, we sought to reflect on the use of active methodologies in higher education, with emphasis on Project-Based Learning.The methodology adopted was based on bibliographical research, through which it was possible to perceive the importance of these methodologies as a teaching practice in the teaching and learning process. The third study aimed to acknowledge the potentiality of digital educational resources in the educational context. The methodology used to carry out this study was based on bibliographic research in databases such as Scielo and IBICT. In the fourth study, the objective was to analyse students' perceptions regarding the Project-Based Learning, as an active methodology proposal in the context of the courses of Social Communication Faculty, as well as to present the experience lived in the Graphic Production II discipline, describing and analysing each of its stages. The methodology adopted was based on a qualitative approach, of the type research-intervention and the data were collected through participant observation and focus group.