Gamificação como proposta para o engajamento de alunos em MOOC sobre educação financeira escolar: possibilidades e desafios para a educação matemática

Abstract

This research aimed to contribute to teachers having another alternative to attract the focus, promote engagement and give more responsibility and autonomy to students and further increase the possibility of achieving more effectively in public schools. teaching and learning process studying, criticizing and debating subjects of extreme relevance, but which do not have time within the school curriculum. The work then consisted of inserting the gamification technique in a VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) through the Moodle platform, in which a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Financial Education subjects was created, due to its relevance and lack schools. The course was set up so that for four weeks, in extra-class moments, it would take students from three classes to post their comments on each weekly video, generating material to be analyzed according to the assumptions of the Semantic Fields Model. , it was allowed to observe that during the course weeks, there was growth in relation to the production of meanings about the basic concepts in Financial Education posted in the forum, being noticeable the development of their knowledge, when observed the sequence of posts. All this taking into account that the course was not compulsory and did not add points for students, yet there is above average participation in online courses. With the results obtained, we hope to help other teachers, that with the use, adaptation and development of this material, it is easier to introduce the concepts of Financial Education in schools, motivating and promoting the integration of students and teachers in debates, research and different ways. to reach knowledge without the need to be all in the same physical space and not always at the same time. Also part of this research is the MOOC “Gamification makes Financial Education fun” as an educational product.