Improving Teachers' Knowledge Management with Blog Platform

  • Authors:
  • Xiaohui Yang

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ETTANDGRS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Workshop on Education Technology and Training & 2008 International Workshop on Geoscience and Remote Sensing - Volume 01
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the necessity of knowledge management (KM) among teachers and try to design the teachers’ knowledge management system with Blog as a kind of tool. Educationists adopt new technologies to fulfill the various requirements of the learners. Knowledge management (KM) is one of newly developed theme to improve continuous teaching-learning practices in an educational institution. Education is closely associated with KM to identify, create and share updated information and existing knowledge with every one.Recent development in information and communication Technology (ICT) helps faculty to create and share high-quality multimedia contents through web based knowledge sharing system. As a new kind of tool of social communication, Blog, called Weblog sometimes, has some natural capabilities for knowledge management. If teachers’ knowledge management system based-on Blog is to be established as a long-term strategy, it must facilitate the development of the following factors simultaneously: knowledge transform, knowledge sharing, and effective instruction.In every higher educational institution, exchange of ideas and opinions between professors and students would definitely increase the possibilities for successful results. In the Blog-based knowledge management system, students get all kinds of necessary information and teachers get an effective knowledge share tool to create and share their knowledge base among themselves and with students. This paper will assess the advantage and methods for using Blog to improve teachers' knowledge management.