Avaliação de ferramentas de comunicação a distância nas atividades de monitoria participativa no ensino de Engenharia

Abstract

The engineering courses that were taking place in the classroom format, faced a new reality in 2020. With the pandemic of the new Coronavirus taking place, all courses were forced to migrate, on an emergency way, to the educational distance format, thus, the teaching methodology had to be adapted. The use of online communication tools was the first challenge imposed on both students and teachers and the search for a better understanding and efficient use of these tools in the construction of knowledge of engineering students through monitoring activities is the reason for this work. Knowing that in remote education, the interaction between the participants is less intense, the active methodology based in problem-based learning, with assistance of communication tools, was tried in an attempt to keep the student willing to build his knowledge. It was observed that the students showed satisfaction with the fast and informal communication provided by the communication applications. Even with the content being presented by the teacher before the distribution of activities to the students, and with the monitor available at almost any time via the applications, some students still felt difficulties in the individual development of what was proposed. There was a suggestion to produce explanatory videos and a more use of computational algorithms to solve problems. Finally, with the end of the discipline, it was noticed that the grades of the students with the highest participation level were significantly higher than the rest of the class, demonstrating a positive result of the proposed methodology application.