Knowledge Sharing among University Students: Current Practice and Perspectives

Knowledge management and the process of knowledge-sharing gained even greater importance last few years due to the distance cooperation environment.A specific area within the topic is sharing of knowledge between university students as this approach and experience can be further reflected in their future employment.The paper aims to bring a literature review to analyse university students' knowledge-sharing behaviours and patterns and to test the findings on primary data of a selected group of university students.For the data collection, the online and paper questionnaire survey method was used, and descriptive statistics and selected tested hypotheses were used for their analysis.The paper also highlighted tools for knowledge sharing among students.The paper's major findings revealed that students are open to knowledge sharing in class and a study group.They are used to using online tools for knowledge sharing, and they have mainly one preferred.What motivates students the most to share knowledge is belongingness to the group.The study concludes that it is essential to support a knowledge-sharing environment at universities and encourage students to knowledge-sharing as it is a vital factor for their employment.