A proposal of engineering education architecture: Improve engineer's competencies through practice labs and 3D virtual worlds

摘要

Society today is the information society, with global connections, telepresence, omnipresence, instantaneity, wide reach, multi formats, convergence, and more. People don't live without technology, then, what the technology can do for education? Despite all technology available, the education still suffers from old problems: distance between technologies and teaching methods, the students have difficulty learning, the school dropout, is necessary to understand the habits and mode of action of the new generations. This work is a PhD thesis in progress and inquires if and how it's possible to measure evidence of students' learning in class, at lab practice specially, and how it may support teacher's decisions on student guidance.