Sistema web de monitoramento das interações de estudantes em um ambiente de aprendizagem ubíqua

Abstract

The Internet in Brazil has expanded in the last years. About 83% of the young people with age of 18 to 24 use it every day. In face of this reality, it is necessary to train the learner for contexts of his time that offers opportunities, resources and new ways of learning. The challenge is to optimize the work of the teacher, that, due to long working hours, ends up not knowing the demands of each student, which makes it harder to create methods aligned with the context of the apprentice. In view of this problem, this work approaches the concept of ubiquitous learning or u-learning, that is characterized by a set of spontaneous learning processes that allows to integrate the apprentice with their learning context, allowing approximation between places, people, events, contents and objects, sustained by mobile devices that make the free and continuous access and the emergence of new possibilities of contextualized learning possible. Accordingly, this work had the objective of conceive, implement and evaluate a web tool of monitoring, called Youubi Ingenium, that uses the services of the Youubi API (Application Programming Interface), to check for changes in the teaching practices used by the teacher. To reach this goal, the method was divided in two phases. In the first one, an analysis of related works, elaboration of the conceptual model and implementation of the software artifact was performed. The second phase involves the use of quantitative and qualitative techniques of collection and analysis of data, as: profile questionnaire, satisfaction questionnaire and semi-structured interview, to check along with the students the signs of changes in the teacher's presence. During the period of 8 weeks, in a higher education institution, the students used the Youubi Gamer tool (OLIVEIRA, 2017), and the teacher used the Web Youbbi Ingenium system, developed in this work, to monitor the activies of the students in that app. After the analysis of the data of the experiment, there were signs of changes in the teaching practices used by the teacher, with the use of Youubi Ingenium.