Jogos e simuladores no ensino da gestão e da economia em Portugal

• Autor(a) principal: Lopes, Carlos Pestana
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Outros Autores: Andrade, António Manuel Valente de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/investigacaoeducacional.2008.3301

This article discusses computer-based simulations and games approaches in learning and teaching in Portuguese higher education. lnformation Technologies can be an important innovation factor in teaching and learning techniques, like the ones we observe in other human activities. Simulations and games provide a "believable" user experience, and players are like actors performing different roles for the development of criticai skills. We study how academics use different simulation-based teaching and learning approaches and how they perceive the barriers in adopting such techniques. ln order to investigate the use of different approaches we did an on-line survey for 926 Portuguese Teachers with 23.3% respondents. The findings have shown low didactic utilization, however it have also shown significant leveis of interest in the future as teachers believe in their pedagogical potential.