Plugue: Uma Ferramenta para Apoiar o Compartilhamento de Ideias no Ensino Baseado em Projetos

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Context: Before starting the development of a final thesis, there areseveral challenges for both faculty advisors and university students.For professors, notoriously, there is the great challenge of findingstudents who want to participate in the development of their academicprojects. For students, the difficulty of finding projects orteachers who want to work on their ideas is recurrent. Objective:The goal of this work is to propose and evaluate a tool called Plugue,to support the project-based learning approach and manage topicideas projects in the academic community. Method: A survey with82 Brazilian academic students and professors was conducted tocollect information about the perception of the utility, perceptionof use, and intention to use the tool using the TAM3 model. Ananalysis of the collected data was conducted according to exploredata and generate results. Results: We identified the characteristicsof participants, current scenario, and perceptions of utility, use, andintended use according to the level of agreement of participants.Conclusions: Our study indicates that the approaches used and thefeatures of the Plugue tool are promising and suitable for highereducation and confirm the need for the tool for universities.

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