Desenvolvimento de um software educacional para apoio ao ensino de localização e roteirização

Abstract

Educational approaches deal with constant changes in themselves to adapt in the new digital realities that emerges from the existence of an unstoppable technologic development, prompter of deep social transformations. In this context, software’s show themselves as important tools in education for decades. Considering this importance, the motivation for this works arises from the identification of an opportunity to contribute to the education of location and routing problems in logistics courses, through the development of software with educational focus. This work starts with the definition of some technologies, adequate to its development, using them to elaborate algorithms and a graphical user interface, able of offer to the end user the application of location and routing methods, complementing the theoretical teaching of these subjects. The developed system is, then, verified through the comparison with some other reference systems, like LogWare®, Google® Maps and Excel®, allowing the validation as educational software, showing its advantages, limitations and opportunities for improvement.