Aulas invertidas e práticas lúdicas no ensino de Redes de Computadores

Abstract

The discipline of Computer Networks is a challenge for both teachers and students due to its demanding nature. mostly theoretical. To subvert this situation, the adoption of methodologies that increase students' motivation and involvement and make them protagonists of their learning emerge as possible solutions. In this context, Learning Based on Games, from English Game Based Learning and Aulas Inverted, from English Flipped Classroom, are promising teaching methodologies. The article describes a set of practices created and evolved during the last ten years in the undergraduate course Digital Systems and Media (comprising fourteen editions) at the Federal University of Ceará. At the end of each semester students are invited to answer an evaluative questionnaire sharing their experiences about the discipline and the impacts of the activities and methodologies applied, guiding changes and improvements for the next versions of the discipline. In 2020, during the period of social isolation caused by the global pandemic of the new corona virus, where a remote teaching approach had to be adopted, an evaluation was carried out before the conclusion of the discipline, to identify possible problems in adapting the model. There was a great contrast between the evaluations of teaching in face-to-face and remote contexts, the former being better evaluated in all metrics compared to the remote context, evidencing potential difficulties in adapting the model.