Information technology and individual factors on knowledge sharing activities

In the world of education, the success of knowledge sharing will help students in realizing and developing their potential. Sharing knowledge is the most important and influential process in knowledge management. The importance of knowledge management can produce value that can be used to make decisions or take action. This study aims to analyze individual and technological factors on knowledge sharing activities. It is intended to know the most influential factors so that can be used as a reference to maximize knowledge sharing activities in university especially in the Faculty of Science and Technology, UIN Suska Riau. This study uses an online questionnaire to get data. There are nine indicators to know which factors influence knowledge sharing, and then explored into 36 statements. Sampling technique in this research is saturated or census sampling with amount of 75 samples. Data analysis technique used is path analysis. The result of path analysis shows that individual factors like personality and self efficacy has more significant effect for knowledge sharing activities and from Information Technology is social media have more significant effect between others.