Ambientes distribuídos em Realidade Virtual como suporte à aprendizagem cooperativa para a resolução de problemas

Abstract

A great number of researchers believe that problem resolution is inherent from the great part of the teaching and learning processes. It is considered that this methodology presents a better effectiveness when applied cooperatively, in other words, an apprentice improves your acting in solving problems when accomplishes his activity in cooperation with other apprentices. In the context of computational systems applied to learning, Virtual Reality (VR) is emerging as a technology that motivates the apprentice, since it allows the navigation, visualization, manipulation and interaction with virtual objects of its learning environment. In this context, this work presents a proposal that allows the use of VR to offers support to the resolution of problems through the cooperative learning. For this, the learning foundations will be considered by experimentation and the effectiveness of theories and constructivities pedagogic principles. As case study it was chosen for developing the project in the Physics ambit. The present work approaches and bases its proposal through the state of the art description of the research in this area. It makes an analysis, supplies specifications of the project, introduces details of system developing, discusses that evaluation and finally, presents the conclusions and proposals future work for this project.