ABSTRACT

As quintessential knowledge organisations, universities need to constantly foster knowledge sharing between their students to enable their academic success and employability. This paper draws on a range of relevant literature to proposes the categorisation of the diverse knowledge-sharing activities undertaken by students in university environments along three dimensions: relatedness to curriculum, distance between students and degree of formality. Broader factors that feed into these dimensions such as the advent of online learning, the widespread integration of social media into learning, the effects of national culture and individual student characteristics on knowledge sharing and the move towards the formalisation of peer learning among students are explored in relation to each of these dimensions. Through the use of several practical examples, the paper demonstrates how these dimensions can act as a planning tool that can help university staff develop, revise and compare student-to-student knowledge-sharing activities.

摘要

作为典型的知识组织，大学需要不断促进学生之间的知识共享，以实现他们的学业成功和就业能力。本文借鉴一系列相关文献，从三个维度对学生在大学环境中进行的各种知识共享活动进行分类：与课程的相关性、学生之间的距离和正式程度。影响这些维度的更广泛的因素，例如在线学习的出现、社交媒体与学习的广泛整合、民族文化和学生个体特征对知识共享的影响以及学生间同伴学习的正规化趋势，在与这些维度中的每一个的关系。