Abstract
Higher Education Institution (IHL) is an organization that promotes knowledge sharing practices for teaching and learning and research. Not much research has been carried out on the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in knowledge sharing in the education sector to form repository which in turn can help lecturers to acquire knowledge for teaching purposes. The objective of this research is to find out the ICT factors influence to knowledge sharing practices among the lecturers and the impact of creating repositories on the performance of teaching and innovation among lectures. A total of six hypotheses are put forward for this purpose. This study uses a quantitative approach as instrument to collect data from questionnaire. A total of 170 lecturers were selected as respondents from the Faculty which offer ICT program from four universities in the Klang Valley were involved in this study. The result shows that ICT management, Knowledge Management Systems and ICT Infrastructure has significantly influenced the practice of knowledge sharing; knowledge sharing practices have significantly shaped the repository, the performance of teaching and teaching innovation has a significant relationship to the re-use of knowledge repositories. The results of the study can serve as a guide to IHL in designing and ascertain direction ICT development of knowledge-sharing practices. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5s1p69
Highlights
Higher Education Institutions (IHLs) need to use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for the planning and the objective of knowledge sharing practices (Agarwal et al, 2012)
The objective of this paper is to investigate influence ICT factors for knowledge sharing initiative in Public Institution of Higher Learning (IHLs) in Malaysia which eventually establish a knowledge repository and the reuse of knowledge from repository can improve the teaching performance and innovation among lecturers
The respondents of this study consisted of 150 lecturers from the Faculty of Computer in 5 universities in the Klang Valley, namely National University Malaysia (UKM), University of Malaya (UM), University of Putra Malaysia (UPM) and University of Technology Mara (UITM)
Summary
Higher Education Institutions (IHLs) need to use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for the planning and the objective of knowledge sharing practices (Agarwal et al, 2012). The practice of knowledge sharing is important to preserve knowledge apart from being a source of reference for the purposes of teaching and learning, research and collaboration (Iqbal et al, 2011). As such, for this purpose, ICT is needed to support and manage knowledge effectively and to encourage the sharing of knowledge, among the lecturers. There is a need to have a study on ICT factors which affect knowledge sharing practices This will lead to the establishment of a repository that can be used to increase the performance and innovation of teaching in institution of higher learning (IHLs)
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