Active methodologies for teaching entrepreneurship: a proposal for higher education

Abstract

Innovation is essential to avoid the obsolescence of the educational system. In a highly competitive scenario, an interdisciplinary training and professionals prepared to deal with the most diverse types of problems and situations are necessary. In this context, this work aims to present a proposal for the application of active methodologies in the teaching of entrepreneurship in higher education, using a virtual teaching and learning environment. For this, a case study was carried out in a blended class of entrepreneurship of the undergraduate course at a University of Santa Catarina. Thus, in the research, active methodologies, educational strategies and specific questionnaires were used to measure the entrepreneurial potential and students' perception of the applied proposal. The activity of creating podcasts, problem-based learning and writing the teaching plan were well evaluated by most students. Moodle proved to be an indispensable tool for better organization and clarity of the proposal, facilitating understanding by the students. In general, the application of the proposal showed benefits such as: global improvement of content understanding, development of critical and entrepreneurial thinking, theoretical content learning through real/palpable situations.