Effects of Interaction in Teacher Professional Community on Teachers’ Innovational Instruction

Hung, Chia-Jen; Shieh, Chich-Jen; Yeh, Shang‐Pao

doi:10.1080/09720073.2014.11891487

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“…The individuals who participate in PVCs seek to fulfil a number of goals. These goals include looking for new knowledge to resolve work-related problems (Chen 2007;Chen et al 2013;Tseng and Kuo 2014), enhancing their skills (Wagner et al 2009), gaining more specialized knowledge and creating more innovative ideas (Hung et al 2014). The professional virtual community offers a significant advantage, which is dependent on the effectual transfer of knowledge and expertise among its participants and the development of cybernetic contents.…”

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Willingness of members to participate in professional virtual communities

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Many professional virtual communities (PVCs) have been unsuccessful due to the low willingness of members to participate in the communities. Thus, there is a need to understand what persuades individuals to participate in PVC activities. This paper develops an explorative model using the TAM as a foundation to examine the important determinants affecting the use of PVCs with the participation of one hundred and forty professionals from ResearchGate. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling are used to evaluate the research model and analyze the data. The results show that the research model fits the data well and the structural model affirms that attitude significantly affects the intentional behavior of users. Perceived ease of use has a positive effect on attitude and perceived usefulness of users. Although perceived usefulness has a significant impact on the participants' attitude, it does not directly influence the intentional behavior of PVC users. Perceived security as a formative construct, complexity, and Internet self-efficacy are proven to be important drivers of perceived ease of use in PVCs. Moreover, the study results indicate that knowledge growth and collaboration have a positive and strong effect on the perceived usefulness of participants.

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