Motivation Design Methodology for Online Knowledge Sharing Interface

Online knowledge sharing interface have been used in many higher learning institutions for online learning. Unfortunately, the students tend to lose their attention quickly and no motivation to participate in the online knowledge sharing activities. Efforts have already been taken by higher learning institutions to encourage student participation for knowledge sharing in the online discussion interface. But still the students were unable to participate fully in the online discussion interface. The current interface design is lacking of motivation factor to sustain students’ participation in online knowledge sharing activities. It was found that motivation can be designed in user interface for online knowledge sharing activities. However, there are very few methodology proposals for designing motivation in user interface. Therefore, this study presents a methodology for designing motivation for online knowledge sharing interface. This Motivation Design Methodology is applied in development of online knowledge sharing interface called as i-Discuss and serves to illustrate the proposal.