Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 教育傳播與科技研究所 === 96 === The development of network science and technology had expanded the way of people's learning. It had gathered the individuals from everywhere through the fictitious cyberspace, formed all format-and-purpose web-based learning community, and offered people another sharing, cooperative, and learning channel.
However, it was easy to find that there were a lot of participants who only watched quietly, but never express any opinion in such a fully sharing passionate environment.
The purpose of this research was to investigate the factors causing the barrier of knowledge sharing on web-based learning community. It took “pat photo artist (assumed name)” for example to carry on the research discussion and understand the cause of behavior behind the “lurker“.
This research adopted the method of the questionnaire investigation and the interview to gain the qualitative and quantitative information and reach the main purpose of this research: (1) Understood users’ behavior of the web-based learning community; (2) Investigated the factors of the barrier of knowledge sharing; (3) Put forward the way of solving the barrier of knowledge sharing, for follow-up relevant research and relevant communities to consult.
The results of the research were: (1) Most web-based learning community users had the barrier of knowledge sharing; (2) There were four factors influencing the barrier of knowledge sharing: usability, motivation, personality and privacy; (3) Solved the barrier of knowledge sharing on web-based learning community by building a encouraging atmosphere, holding a gathering meeting, increasing a server flow, improving interface, and opening up beginners’ discussion area to encourage beginners to involve more.
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