Aprendizagem baseada em projetos: percepção dos discentes do curso de engenharia de produção

Abstract

Active methodologies, such as Project Based Learning (PBL), are able to stimulate students’ active attitudes, promoting soft skills development, such as creativity and autonomy. This research evaluates students’ perception about a learning strategy based on PBL developed at Industrial Engineering course. The methodology followed two phases: (i) students’ perception analysis through a questionnaire and (ii) interviews as further analysis, in order to explore the elements that justify the results obtained from the first phase. The research revealed that PBL promoted a creative, dynamic and contextualized learning environment, able to develop on the students critical thinking, social skills and autonomy competences. However, they identified workload as a challenge.