Preferences of Kazakhstan Students and Faculty for Knowledge Transfer

The focus of this research is to know the preferential displays of students and academic staff concerning Kazakhstan's online and offline knowledge transfer activities. After garnering the pertinent information on knowledge transfer activities, the authors administered two self-administered questionnaires for students and academic staff after checking the reliability and validity of the instrument by using McDonald Omega and Bartlett's tests. They summarized, coded, decoded, and analyzed data collected from 4,765 students and 424 academic staff by using Microsoft Excel, MATLAB, and R Language R Studio. The researchers also analyzed selected hypotheses by using the Kruskal-Wallis hypothesis testing technique. Astonishingly, most students from social sciences prefer the online mode of transformation of knowledge to science students who opt for face-to-face because of the nature of the discipline and the similar opinions expressed by academic staff. During the pandemic, academia depended only on the online mode of knowledge transfer.