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A busca de uma abordagem mais dinâmica no ensino de Computação vem sendo cada vez mais frequente, com esse objetivo o projeto LearningLab busca promover cursos utilizando abordagens ativas, unindo a teoria e a prática. Partindo disso, o curso Figmatizando ideias foi realizado com 28 alunos da Universidade Federal do Ceará. Este artigo apresenta um relato de experiência na execução do curso, baseado na percepção dos alunos. Os dados foram analisados de forma quantitativa e qualitativa. Os resultados mostram que a maioria dos alunos alegaram que compreenderam os conteúdos passados durante as aulas, exercitaram os conhecimentos obtidos e gostaram da didática de ensino. Em relação à metodologia de ensino, os principais aspectos positivos foram: aulas práticas e presenciais em laboratório, didática da instrutora de fácil entendimento e por fim, abordagem e equipe de monitores focados no aprendizado do aluno.

Universities and extension projects had to redesign their teaching approaches and methods as a consequence to the replacement of face-to-face teaching by distance learning. The project LearningLab presents a proposal for a practical laboratory that offers courses to students in order to promote and expand their knowledge. This paper reports the findings of the application of the mentioned methodology on the course ‘Leadership in IT: A Practical Approach’. For this, examples of real situations from daily life in the labor market were used. The data obtained were analyzed qualitatively using the grounded theory method and quantitatively to identify positive and negative points related to the implementation of the course. The results show that the main positive points mentioned by the students were (a) the content covered in the course, (b) the teaching methodology, (c) examples of real situations, and (d) the didactics of the lecturers. 100% of the students pointed out that: (i) the teaching methodology was easy to learn, (ii) the content was easy to remember, (iii) the teaching was objective and clear, and (iv) questions were answered promptly. All the participants also did not find it tedious to submit the final project of the course. Therefore, the main contribution of this study can be noted on the student’s professional development of project LearningLab.