Práticas com software simulador para apoio no ensino de redes de computadores

Abstract

Given the availability and variety of computer network simulator software on the market, one can consider an opportunity for improvement to use these software as a pedagogical tool to support the learning of computer networks. The objective of this work was to propose a pedagogical approach through practices developed in the Cisco Packet Tracer network simulator software. For this, a bibliographical research was carried out and the subsequent development of four practical classes, in which they have video classes and each one has its practice guide, these in turn were presented to the students of the discipline of computer networks of the semester 2023.1 of the Federal University of Ceará, Sobral campus. After applying the practices, a questionnaire was prepared and disseminated among the students, so that it is possible to assess how comprehensible the practices were and how much they helped in the assimilation of the concepts of computer networks. From the monitoring of the results of the proposed questionnaire, it can be observed that the practices in the Cisco Packet Tracer simulator favored the students' learning of the discipline.