A Knowledge Management System to Classify Social Educational Resources Within a Subject Using Teamwork Techniques

• Published in: Learning and Collaboration Technologies pp. 510 - 519
• Main Authors: Séin-Echaluce, María Luisa, Fidalgo Blanco, Ángel, J. García-Peñalvo, Francisco, Conde, Miguel Ángel
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2015
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: E-learning; Educational repositories; Knowledge management system; Service learning; Teamwork competence
• ISBN: 9783319206080; 3319206087
• ISSN: 0302-9743; 1611-3349
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20609-7_48

The traditional way to develop contents for a subject is based on the faculty perception and experience, however students should be taken into account. This work proposes a methodology that promotes the creation, classification and organization both teachers’ and students’ learning resources within the same subject scope in a timeless manner. Teamwork process is monitored by a proactive method that makes possible the generation of resources collaboratively. A knowledge management system allows to Classify, Search, Organize, Relate and Adapt the generated resources and includes a semantic search engine, based on ontologies, which provides a final product for users’ needs. A first iteration of an action-research allows answering questions such as the types of resources created during the teamwork (with academic, social and service orientation), how to stablish a common organization of the created knowledge for all potential users and improve educational resources of an academic subject with these collaborative resources.