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Knowledge management through collaborative platforms
This page describes how knowledge management can be fostered through collaborative platforms. It takes aspects of people, their activities and establishes knowledge based on activities.
Goal
The goal of the knowledge platform is to provide an easy entry points for visitors and users, to find valuable information on the topics they are looking for. This includes:
- Students looking for courses related to a certain topic.
- Collaboration partners searching for a master thesis in a certain area
- Visitors searching for people with expertise in a certain area.
Our vision
Our vision is to use the Web as an interactive platform for the knowledge representation. While knowledge can be aggregated by following the activities of the user, structured knowledge can be achieved through the use of semantic technologies.
Our approach is to use keywords as the easiest entry point for information. "Regardless" of whatever you are doing, some keywords are provided. These keywords will then be placed in relation to each other. When the keyboard base is mapped sufficiently, it will represent the knowledge in the organisation.
Through using semantics we also ensure the interoperability between different systems. The annotated information can simply be imported and exported, e.g. "export all info changed today".
Courses
Courses are subdivided in lectures. We assume that a lecturer has the knowledge on the lecture he is giving. Thus, providing keywords to lectures will mean that these topics (tags) will also apply for the lecturer.
One might extend that to students joining courses, though providing them with "reduced height" of the tags.
Thesis
Master and PhD thesis work has always supervisors. Usually it is assumed that a PhD student knows more than his supervisor. The main supervisor might be an expert in the area, whereas co-supervisors only cover a certain area...
Thesis supervision can thus be used for providing indications of knowledge.
Notes
Companies working with similar ideas:
- xxx ask Kaosher for the tool being used in NSN
Programs used elsewhere
Video Tools
Tool of editing and procesing videos:
and a screen recorder (with this one you can capture your screen and your voice).
- http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html (for mac)
- http://www.screenr.com/
- An example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqsyTbFLbxU
Moodle
Moodle http://demo.moodle.net/ has been successfully used in two Spanish universities:
Fronter
the platform has a virtual whiteboard which can be a solution about recording a writing without camera.
- http://www.elluminate.com/downloads/whitepapers/Elluminate_PowerLink_for_Blackboard_Learning_Management_System_CE_and_Vista.pdf
- An example: https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2011-04-21.1237.M.C28E1B31E47F0CBF5A595CF03E6276.vcr&sid=2010107
Note
- Coursera has one option called "signature track": for earn official recognition, link the student profile to their real identity (using Photo ID and typing pattern) for security access and code of conduct.
- Coursera and edX have the options register/unregister; but Udacity have not the option for unregister.
- See http://ResearchKjeller.no for challenges in collaboration
