英文摘要 |
Internet technology and social media have played key fundamental roles in distance e-learning for college students in China during COVID-19. This study constructs a moderated mediation model to explore the relationship between college students' cognition of cloud academic lectures and their continual willingness to share, including the mediating effects of motivation for sharing and the moderating effects of self-construal. Based on the theoretical perspective of ''cognition-motivation-willingness,'' we use a common two-step procedure: First, we have in-depth interviews with 15 college students who are active participants in cloud academic lectures. Second, we further conduct a nationwide online survey and generate 431 results from college-student users in China. Exploratory analysis shows that the cognition of cloud academic lectures has significantly positive effects on continual willingness to share after controlling the factors of gender, education, and major. Among the four motivations for sharing, achievement, knowledge self-efficacy, altruistic, and social motivation, only altruistic motivation and knowledge self-efficacy significantly exhibit mediating effects, with the former mediating effect negatively moderated by independent self-construal, whereas the latter mediating effect is not moderated by interdependent self-construal. The results show that college students generally have high evaluations of cloud academic lectures and a strong willingness for continual sharing. The mean value of altruistic motivation is the highest among the four sharing motivations. In terms of the sharing channels, WeChat groups and WeChat Moments play significant roles. The findings of this study contribute to the academic institutes' understanding of presentation form, content production, and user experience for cloud academic lectures in the post-epidemic era. More importantly, these results are meaningful to improve the cognitive evaluation and information-sharing willingness among college students. Implications and directions for future work are also discussed. |