This article describes the creation of a Center on visual perception in a Virtual Learning Environment on Architecture and Design of the Federal University of Santa Catarina. Thus, it presents the theoretical approach and the technological structure that supports the process of collaborative learning in such an environment. Problem Based Learning (PBL) approach
provides theoretical referential to the study as well the potential of technologies of information and communication. Also, the article discusses the methodology used on the development of the
virtual nucleus and the analysis of the course "Visual Perception and Language of Video”, in which a group of undergraduate students in design at UFSC had solved problems of visual perception through Virtual Learning Environments.