| With the development of network technology, online learning community has received more andmore attention of experts from the domestic and foreign in many fields. Graduate students, as aspecial group in the society, have a high-level of knowledge, mental maturity, learning motivation atlearning and so on. The research of online learning community among graduate students will behelpful for students to learn how to make full use of the internet resources and how to shareknowledge to improve themselves, which will then contribute to the quality of the higher education.Knowledge management, as a advanced concept and method, is used to analyze and discuss onlinelearning community among graduate students.First, some domestic and international relevant assessment tools of the item are applied andsome ideas of teachers and graduate students adopted to draw up a forecast questionnaire including50items. A formal questionnaire, including six dimensions and28items, is fixed from the result ofthe analysis of the253valid forecast questionnaires. The result of the formal questionnaire showsthat graduate students are above the average in the cultivation of network learning community, inwhich the ability to knowledge management get the highest scores while innovation lowest.Meanwhile, there are differences in the six dimensions as graduate students are different in gender,major, grade, age, hometown, the experience of surfing the net.Secondly, according to the knowledge management and online learning community, a model ofcultivating network learning community is constructed,which is based on the investigation of thecurrent situation and the characteristics of the graduate students in learning. This model containsmostly three sections including cultivating elements, cultivating level and its correspondingdimensions, cultivating support (knowledge management). Five strategies are also put forward tohelp graduate students to cultivate online learning community.Finally, based on the three main functions (site management, user management and curriculummanagement) of Moodle platform, a practical cultivating platform for graduate online learningcommunity is designed, which is related to the mind map and combined with graduate onlinelearning community cultivating status and the corresponding cultivating strategy. |
