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(fig.2 , frame work by Simth,D.,2000)
It is aimed to be a low-cost KM tool for every person. Individual faculty, students, staff,
and other college/university citizens need access to simple, low-cost, interoperable KM
tools. So that they can create and manage content/context for personal use and sharing
(EDUCause, Sept/Oct, 2003). To provide better teaching-learning environment,
educational institutions must initiate knowledge management practices in their capacity to
acquire, utilize and share knowledge by using ICT.
The questionnaire was used to ask our faculty members to give feed back about
implementation of KM practices.
(Fig 3 : Screen shots of K-Share tool – an intranet site)
Faculties are motivated to give response for the given questionnaire and based on their
feedback, K-share is designed as a web-based knowledge-sharing tool. Faculty members
are motivated to prepare and host their lecture notes along with support materials (in the
form of PPT, PDF, DOC and so on) and URLs for further references. Students do login to
‘K-Share’ and to get lecture notes and learning support materials during their course work
in every semester. In addition to this,E-Mail, Discussion forum, WebOPAC and e-Books
are add-ons in K-Share.
Conclusions
The main objective is to integrate the knowledge management practices and e learning
together for developing an effective knowledge-sharing platform between teachers and
students. This is to see improvements in their self-learning attitude and academic
performance. We aimed the following results by introducing this concept,
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