摘要：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.
