Affordances of Technology-Enhanced Learning in Heritage Tourism—Exploratory Study

Approaches to language teaching and learning change and develop as they try to keep pace with the development of technologies. We are experiencing transformative practices being applied to meet the societal and technological changes. We offer a revised scenario outlining the steps for developing academic writing skills with highlighted affordances of technology in undergraduate students of Management of Tourism. The psychodidactic approach is applied in assisting students in the scientific processing of a heritage tourism topic in individual stages, from establishing existing knowledge to own contribution in the form of literary research. It forms a frame within which a set of activities is conducted in blended learning environment. The presented exploratory study employs a mixed-methods approach encompassing frequency analysis followed by thematic analysis, comparison of findings, and survey. Individual steps in the didactic scenario are described and findings are visualized. Experience of students with utilization of bibliographic databases is highlighted. Simple-seeming exercises had to be inserted into the scenario because the students had no prior experience with AI-powered technologies like Chat GPT or Copilot. For academic writing, no one employed any writing assistant, yet the majority could use bibliographic databases and cite sources quite well.