HOW DOES STUDENTS MOTIVATION TO ACQUIRE NEW GEOSPATIAL SKILLS INFLUENCE THEIR CHOICES OF E-LEARNING CONTENT?
Higher education in many disciplines is affected nowadays by an evident orientation to assist students in developing a certain set of skills required by the labour market. This trend is visible also in the field of Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIS&T). The composition of compet...
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Higher education in many disciplines is affected nowadays by an evident orientation to assist
students in developing a certain set of skills required by the labour market. This trend is visible
also in the field of Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIS&T). The
composition of competencies encompasses, apart from industry-specific technical
competencies, also soft skills related to personal effectiveness, academic and workplace
competencies. Moreover, soft skills are gaining in importance, being identified as future work
skills. As a result, students may search for certain skills when they come into contact with a
particular learning content. In this study, we investigated how the motivation to acquire specific
skills influences students’ behaviour on the e-learning platform. As a case study, we selected a
study programme in land management carried out at the Institute of Geography and Spatial
Management (Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland). Several different motivating factors,
like GIS&T skills and the ability to co-operate, were identified and compared with students’
behaviour on the e-learning platform in certain modules of the study programme. The results
indicated that students only partially prospected for certain competencies during their work
with the content of the e-learning platform. Students’ motivation was more evident in their online behaviour when they wanted to acquire technical skills than when they planned to develop
soft skills.
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| spelling | doaj-art-89799cec5d1f41a5b2168e6937b421322025-08-20T02:40:08ZengEuropean Association of GeographersEuropean Journal of Geography1792-13412410-74332017-01-0183HOW DOES STUDENTS MOTIVATION TO ACQUIRE NEW GEOSPATIAL SKILLS INFLUENCE THEIR CHOICES OF E-LEARNING CONTENT?Aneta Szablowska-MidorNatalia KoleckaJacek Kozak Krzysztof Ostafin Higher education in many disciplines is affected nowadays by an evident orientation to assist students in developing a certain set of skills required by the labour market. This trend is visible also in the field of Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIS&T). The composition of competencies encompasses, apart from industry-specific technical competencies, also soft skills related to personal effectiveness, academic and workplace competencies. Moreover, soft skills are gaining in importance, being identified as future work skills. As a result, students may search for certain skills when they come into contact with a particular learning content. In this study, we investigated how the motivation to acquire specific skills influences students’ behaviour on the e-learning platform. As a case study, we selected a study programme in land management carried out at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Management (Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland). Several different motivating factors, like GIS&T skills and the ability to co-operate, were identified and compared with students’ behaviour on the e-learning platform in certain modules of the study programme. The results indicated that students only partially prospected for certain competencies during their work with the content of the e-learning platform. Students’ motivation was more evident in their online behaviour when they wanted to acquire technical skills than when they planned to develop soft skills. https://www.eurogeojournal.eu/index.php/egj/article/view/302E-learningmotivationgeoinformationskills |
| spellingShingle | Aneta Szablowska-Midor Natalia Kolecka Jacek Kozak Krzysztof Ostafin HOW DOES STUDENTS MOTIVATION TO ACQUIRE NEW GEOSPATIAL SKILLS INFLUENCE THEIR CHOICES OF E-LEARNING CONTENT? European Journal of Geography E-learning motivation geoinformation skills |
| title | HOW DOES STUDENTS MOTIVATION TO ACQUIRE NEW GEOSPATIAL SKILLS INFLUENCE THEIR CHOICES OF E-LEARNING CONTENT? |
| title_full | HOW DOES STUDENTS MOTIVATION TO ACQUIRE NEW GEOSPATIAL SKILLS INFLUENCE THEIR CHOICES OF E-LEARNING CONTENT? |
| title_fullStr | HOW DOES STUDENTS MOTIVATION TO ACQUIRE NEW GEOSPATIAL SKILLS INFLUENCE THEIR CHOICES OF E-LEARNING CONTENT? |
| title_full_unstemmed | HOW DOES STUDENTS MOTIVATION TO ACQUIRE NEW GEOSPATIAL SKILLS INFLUENCE THEIR CHOICES OF E-LEARNING CONTENT? |
| title_short | HOW DOES STUDENTS MOTIVATION TO ACQUIRE NEW GEOSPATIAL SKILLS INFLUENCE THEIR CHOICES OF E-LEARNING CONTENT? |
| title_sort | how does students motivation to acquire new geospatial skills influence their choices of e learning content |
| topic | E-learning motivation geoinformation skills |
| url | https://www.eurogeojournal.eu/index.php/egj/article/view/302 |
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