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students equally and also to provide quality – learning materials to the students . The
lecture content is generally screened and advised by the appointed Subject Matter Experts
(SMEs) before delivering to students. Presently, Our K-Share system is made available
through intranet for students to access the learning content within our institution.
E-Learning Approach
Web-based learning approach is proposed to improve the self-paced learning of students.
In general, K-Share tool is aimed to improve, effective teaching-learning process between
teachers and students.Students were involved to give necessary and feedback about ‘K-
Share’ during their course of learning . K-Share is developed to share learning support
materials for the courses of computer science and engineering & information technology
dept (CSE and IT). Most of the subjects are well suitable in nature to prepare electronic
learning materials by the faculty of CSE & IT under the guidance of Subject Matter
Experts (SMEs).
K-Share is an integrating knowledge management suit to produce innovative and effective
knowledge sharing environment for both teachers and students. The role of teaching
faculty is to lead students to necessary information and knowledge resources. Students can
get necessary assistance from any experts to solve their queries or problems in the case of
virtual learning workplace (Kiili,M., 2001). Since most of the colleges are having very
limited trained and qualified teaching faculty, our k-share system do focus the benefit of
learners. According to Kiili (2001), the traditional idea of young student attending lectures
and seminars on a daily basis is not the usual solution for getting high education any more.
This means offering wide-range knowledge sharing platform reduce their anxiety and
improves their confidence in learning things much faster than traditional teaching
environment.
Traditional Classroom and ICT
In general, the learning process is depends on the involvement level of students and
teacher in a traditional classroom. Students may come from different background and at
the same time, teachers also need to update their knowledge (or) information perfectly.
Much of a community’s knowledge lies within its documents, discussions, decisions,
conceptual models, formal educational modules, processes, and the awareness by members
of other members’ expertise. For an academic professional society, community documents
include books, journal articles, conference papers, audio tapes, videos, still pictures,
course syllabi, and tutorials (Bieber et al., 2002). WWW Techniques are implemented here
to develop effective k-share tool by linking and navigating those documents for better
knowledge sharing platform among people. According to Newman,B. (1999), the general
knowledge model organizes knowledge flows into four primary activity areas: Knowledge
creation, retention, transfer and utilization.
A Frame Work for K-Share Tool
A framework is proposed for developing a knowledge-sharing tool for higher educational
institution. It consists of learning content generation, sharing of created knowledge content
and identifying the learning and support materials. All the three elements are connected
here by assessment. The element learning and Support material will be utilized to generate
lecture content. The lecture content will be delivered to students after SME’s evaluation.
Lecturer may need to do some changes or modifications based on feedback from SMEs.
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