Abstract: The purpose of this work is to discuss the experience and results of employing active learning methods using smartphones in three different financial courses during three semesters. Smartphones connected to the internet enable research with search engines (e.g. Google, Yahoo!, Bing) and access to an online survey generator (e.g. SurveyMonkey),
which allows online testing on the learning content. Furthermore, smartphones may produce high-quality videos that can be uploaded to a social network (e.g. YouTube). These technological developments change the relationship between learners and tutors and support new learning techniques. Such procedures require tutors to act as a facilitator interacting
with the learners, who should be seen as active participants in an unrestrained debate where they should be encouraged to present ideas, to produce innovative work, and even to suggest improvements to the learning methodologies, what did happen during the development of the techniques presented in this work. Thus, the presented techniques, references, and results of questionnaires may improve the set of theoretical conceptions and actions on how to improve the learning environment and the relationship amid this environment with a group of learners.