Design and Implement a Knowledge Management System to Support Web-based Learning in Higher Education

Abstract

Today most colleges have web-based learning system to keep a large number of course resources during higher education process. However, these systems aiming to display course resources often neglect users’ knowledge management requirement. Traditional course-based learning confines knowledge to one course. But both teachers and learners often require extracting useful knowledge from course for themselves. Besides, with development of mobile technology, learning with convenient devices was required by college students. Lack of knowledge services and limited clients constrict the development of web-based learning. Taking Tsinghua University as a typical case and according to the knowledge management theory, this paper designed and implemented a knowledge management system (KMS-THU) to support knowledge service for Tsinghua Web School (THU-WS), which is a web-based learning platform of Tsinghua. KMS-THU focuses on knowledge management by people and also abstracts distinctive knowledge services for courses. With campus cloud service and varies mobile clients, it brings a ubiquitous learning style to optimize the learning experience. Besides illustrating design of knowledge service and framework of KMS for web-based learning, this paper set forth the technical details for KMS-THU implementation.