Ensino-aprendizagem de conteúdos de engenharia por meio de objetos de aprendizagem BIM

Abstract

Engineering education represents a great challenge for professors, given the large amount and complexity of involved contents in study area, as well as the need to develop different students skills and abilities. In process, it is common that learning difficulties arise, which must be identified and worked on to make learning more effective. As a facilitator agent, the use of Information Technology resources, such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) can offer several benefits in learning, from improvements in project visualization through threedimensional models, providing students with greater ease in highly complex construction projects understanding, even improvements in planning and management, enabling them to generate accurate and automated budgets. Therefore, the present work sought to develop, through the Design Science Research method, a teaching-learning engineering content planning tool through BIM learning objects. The method consisted of five basic steps: (1) Problem Awareness Stage, carried out to understand the students learning difficulties in relation to engineering content, in this case, in Construction Management; (2) Suggestion Stage, to propose a model elaboration (or artifact) that facilitates the teaching-learning planning of worked contents; (3) Development Stage, to develop BIM learning objects aimed at identified difficulties, relating them to essential competencies and skills to the students formation; (4) Evaluation Stage, to assess the feasibility of applying the tool, analyzing its theoretical and practical contributions; and (5) Conclusion Stage, to report the lessons learned in the study, exposing the research objectives achieved and not achieved, and indicating what the limiting factors were. As contributions, a tool was obtained that can be applied by professors of engineering disciplines related to BIM, as a whole, becoming an alternative to facilitate the contents learning and competences and skills development. The referred tool, which integrates BIM learning objects, can be found and downloaded through the links presented at the end of the research, in Appendix F.