A study of social participation and knowledge sharing in the teachers' online professional community of practice

被引:159
作者
Tseng, Fan-Chuan [1 ]
Kuo, Feng-Yang [2 ]
机构
[1] Natl Univ Tainan, Dept Business & Management, Tainan, Taiwan
[2] Natl Sun Yat Sen Univ, Dept Informat Management, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan
关键词
Computer-mediated communication; Cooperative/collaborative learning; Interactive learning environments; Learning communities; SELF-EFFICACY BELIEFS; MANAGEMENT-SYSTEMS; PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL-MODEL; HUMAN AGENCY; DETERMINANTS; INFORMATION; TECHNOLOGY; MOTIVATION; SUPPORT;
D O I
10.1016/j.compedu.2013.10.005
中图分类号
TP39 [计算机的应用];
学科分类号
081203 ; 0835 ;
摘要
To facilitate professional development of teachers in the online context, the online community of practice (Col's) has become an important platform in which individuals with similar interests or common goals get together to share their resources, develop working strategies, solve problems, and improve individual as well as organizational performance. In this study, we have collected self-reported knowledge-sharing behaviors from 321 members of the largest online professional CoP of teachers in Taiwan. The results show that closer connections among online CoP members can lead to greater recognition of and altruism towards others. Moreover, performance expectation and self-efficacy belief play essential roles in knowledge-sharing participation. Thus, the development of social relationships among online teacher members helps them obtain potential resources and reliable support through their social network. Also, teachers' membership in the online professional CoP fosters a prosocial attitude that heightens their willingness to share useful resources and solve other members' problems, both emotionally and instrumentally. Consequently, knowledge-sharing behaviors, in terms of knowledge giving and knowing receiving, are significantly predicted by prosocial commitment and performance expectation respectively. The implications to both research and practice are provided in this paper. (C) 2013 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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页码:37 / 47
页数:11
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