ORGANIZAÇÃO DE UM AMBIENTE VIRTUAL DE APRENDIZAGEM PARA O ENSINO DE GESTÃO DE SAÚDE E SEGURANÇA

Abstract

There is tendency in contemporary education to prioritize student involvement in educational processes, especially through the use of active learning methodologies. In this sense, this work aims to organize and apply a virtual learning environment (VLE) for the first offer of the distance curricular unit of Health and Safety Management, which compose the Technical Course in Occupational Safety programme at the Chapecó Campus of the Instituto Federal of Santa Catarina (IFSC). For this, a VLE divided into four topics was structured, containing an activity based on the project-based learning methodology. After that, the VLE was used in a class during the first semester of 2020. The result of the practice was considered satisfactory, as 92.3% of the students considered the methodology of the curricular unit good or excellent.