Aprendizagem Baseada em Problemas

Metodologia Educacional Ativa, Aplicada

Abstract

Problem-Based Learning: Active Educational Methodology in Higher Education Teaching. This work investigates the experimental use of the process Problem-Based Learning (PBL} in Business Administration courses of the Universidade Veiga de Almeida (Brazil}, as a pedagogical methodology which aims to build knowledge based on understanding, analysis and planning solutions in relation to real problems, allowing an active, significant and critical learning, promoting a collaborative intellectual research environment, attentive to interdisciplinarity. Aims to stimulate student initiative related to autonomous processes in their professional training, increasing holistic, interdisciplinary cognitive ability and cooperation in learning, acquiring reflective and investigative competences. lts methodology seeks to implement and track the cognitive process under student orientation, and the teacher a tutor and mediator, guiding the way of "learning to learn". The research in progress, demonstrates the effectiveness of PBL process in the acquisition and development of knowledge needed to work in today's society in its complexity and variability.