Ambiente virtual para ensino e aprendizagem de acionamento de motores elétricos.

Abstract

In this work a virtual environment is presented to assist students and teachers in the teaching and learning of electric motors activation methods. The methodology is based on the development of a serious game through the Construct 2 © platform, which intuitively enables the execution of projects related to virtual simulations and computational games. The use of the virtual environment aims to enable the users to familiarize themselves with the electric motors activation subject, facilitating the execution of physical experiments, being configured as a good pre-laboratory resource, with the possibility of being used anywhere, at any time, for better learning of the execution of the main assemblies related to activation of electric motors. Pre-laboratory and experimental resources are important tools for student development, making them the most active agent and protagonist of obtaining their own knowledge, as well as a good didactic resource that can be used by the teacher as a way to apply the exposed content. The program developed is a useful tool for the demonstration of the subject in classrooms, since this requires only one computer. Furthermore, from the use of the platform it is possible to understand the connections necessary for the operation of the motor in various configurations, which allows the user to make physical assemblies with more practicality after using it.