A gamificação na perspectiva de ensino híbrido e sua relação com a aprendizagem significativa no ensino superior

Abstract

The present research deals with gamification from the perspective of hybrid teaching and its relation to meaningful learning in higher education. In the context of digital culture, this work presents the empirical perspective of an investigation about gamification as a phenomenon that uses the elements of games, mechanics, dynamics and components, applied in non-games contexts. Incorporation as a pedagogical strategy in the area of education can promote the reconfiguration of traditional teaching and learning practices. Hybrid education and multimodality, establish and dimension new ways of teaching and learning, in which online and face-to-face intertwine, blend and converge. This research aims to analyze the contributions of gamification in the teaching and learning processes, as a pedagogical strategy, from a hybrid teaching perspective, creating significant learning experiences in higher education. The methodology used to carry out this qualitative research was the case study and involved the triangulation of different data sources: reading and analysis of the students' blogs, answers to the questionnaire and the evaluation questionnaire of the pedagogical proposal, journal entries in the researcher , from the participant observation of the interactions, events and moments of knowledge sharing and construction. The results show that gamification as a pedagogical strategy can allow meaningful learning within a hybrid and multimodal context in which the student is inserted in the center of the teaching and learning process, which provides the subjects immersion and collaboration, aligning previous knowledge to new knowledge, modifying the cognitive structure of those who learn. This research proposes to present a significant contribution to the area of education, disseminating new educational practices that involve new didactic tools, favoring the significant learning of the students, from the use of gamification in a hybrid and multimodal context of a course of study degree in Pedagogy of the Federal University of Alagoas.