TY - JOUR
T1 - Educating for innovation
T2 - students’ perceptions of the learning environment and of their own innovation competence
AU - Ovbiagbonhia, A.R.
AU - Kollöffel, Bas
AU - Brok, Perry den
N1 - Springer deal
PY - 2019/10/1
Y1 - 2019/10/1
N2 - Developing students’ innovation competence is becoming increasingly important in higher education, yet few studies have actually investigated whether current learning environments are aimed at promoting this competence and whether students perceive that they have mastered this competence. This study aimed to map students’ perceptions of the learning environment in terms of whether their schools’ curricula were directed towards developing innovation competence and their perceptions of their own innovation competence. A survey was created and administered to 130 students of Built Environment programs at eight Universities of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. Students perceived a supportive learning environment for innovation competence only to a limited degree. On the other hand, students rated their own innovation competence moderately highly. Despite positive perceptions of students’ own innovation competence, the learning environment was only to a limited degree aimed at developing innovation competence. The results suggest that universities might need to focus more explicitly and structurally on the teaching and assessment of innovation competence.
AB - Developing students’ innovation competence is becoming increasingly important in higher education, yet few studies have actually investigated whether current learning environments are aimed at promoting this competence and whether students perceive that they have mastered this competence. This study aimed to map students’ perceptions of the learning environment in terms of whether their schools’ curricula were directed towards developing innovation competence and their perceptions of their own innovation competence. A survey was created and administered to 130 students of Built Environment programs at eight Universities of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. Students perceived a supportive learning environment for innovation competence only to a limited degree. On the other hand, students rated their own innovation competence moderately highly. Despite positive perceptions of students’ own innovation competence, the learning environment was only to a limited degree aimed at developing innovation competence. The results suggest that universities might need to focus more explicitly and structurally on the teaching and assessment of innovation competence.
KW - UT-Hybrid-D
KW - Learning environment
KW - Students’ perceptions
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85061755202&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10984-019-09280-3
DO - 10.1007/s10984-019-09280-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85061755202
VL - 22
SP - 387
EP - 407
JO - Learning environments research
JF - Learning environments research
SN - 1387-1579
IS - 3
ER -