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Learning strategies and students’ motivation for entrepreneu-rial activity: Exploratory research course at the law school of the autonomous regional university of los andes-ecuador

Abstract:

Nowadays, universities must be focused on knowledge transfer. For this, changes must be generated in the different academic processes based on the transformation of their teaching practices through the integration of educational technologies, so that these respond to the expectations and needs of their students. What is fundamental for them should be the level of understanding of information management and the use of learning strategies. The general objective of this research is to determine the relationship between the use of learning strategies and the motivation for entrepreneurial activity of students of the subject Exploratory Research belonging to the Law program of the Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los Andes, Ecuador. The type of research is substantive, observational, descriptive and exploratory. Scientific, non-experimental, historical-logical and systemic-structural methods are used; they are supported by Spearman’s statistical test. Two questionnaires were applied to the 93 students of the Exploratory Research subject belonging to the Law career to measure the learning strategies used by them, as well as the motivation they present for the entrepreneurial activity. Among the main results, the pre-dominant strategies were those of acquisition, codification and retrieval of information; and it was observed that most of the students were motivated by the entrepreneurial activity.