Influence of Motivation on Learning Approaches of Students Using Learning Objects in Graphics Engineering

This paper provides details of a study in which multimedia Learning Objects (LOs) have been designed and built for the field of Graphic Expression and then have been used by 54 students into the subject Graphic Expression Applied to Building Design of Building Engineering Program as a teaching aid for the purpose of analysing the affect of motivation on students' approaches to learning following LO use. They were used the instrument "Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ)" for measuring motivation and the "Revised Two-Factor Study Process Questionnaire (R-SPQ-2F)" was used to measure the approaches to learning, Findings show that following the use of LOs in Graphic expression motivation is linked to approaches to learning, independently of their intensity, producing a significant difference between the variables for Approaches to Learning and the variables for Motivation that correspond to Intrinsic Goal Orientation, Task Value, and Control of Learning Beliefs.