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Investigating the Determinants of Information Sharing Intentions of Learners in Collaborative Learning

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This study investigates the determinants of learners’ information sharing intentions in collaborative learning through the adoption of open learner models. Statistical analyses are performed on the data collected from 235 undergraduate students in Malaysian universities through survey to test the relationship between perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, trust and the information sharing intention of learners. The result reveals that all three factors have a significant impact on learners’ information sharing behaviors in collaborative learning through the adoption of open learner models. Such findings are useful for educational institutions in their adoption of open learner models for information sharing in technology-based collaborative learning.

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This research is supported by the Ministry of Education of Malaysia and University Teknikal Malaysia Melaka and the Humanities and Social Sciences Foundation of the Ministry of Education (No. 14YJA630075), China, the Beijing Nova Program (No. Z131101000413058), the Fundamental Research Fund for the Central Universities, and the Research Fund of Renmin University of China (No. 15XNLQ08).

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  1. School of Business IT and Logistics, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Yong Wee Sek, Hepu Deng & Elspeth McKay

  2. Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia

    Yong Wee Sek

  3. School of Information, Smart City Research Center, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

    Wei Xu

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Sek, Y.W., Deng, H., McKay, E., Xu, W. (2016). Investigating the Determinants of Information Sharing Intentions of Learners in Collaborative Learning. In: Gong, Z., Chiu, D., Zou, D. (eds) Current Developments in Web Based Learning. ICWL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9584. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32865-2_10

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