E-Learning As A Knowledge Management 
Approach For Intellectual Capital Utilization

Year 2009, Volume: 10 Issue: 1, 159 - 170, 01.03.2009

Issa Shehabat Kamel Khoualdı

Abstract

This paper addresses human resources utilization at the university environment. We address the design issues of e-learning courses that can capture the teacher knowledge. The underlying objective is that e-learning is a key knowledge and major resources for many universities. Therefore, the design of e-learning should be an important part of the university knowledge management process. Teachers' knowledge in any important topic or field should be managed in a way that the university can benefit from it in case of teacher leaving or retired. Hence, intellectual personal knowledge management will be explored through the development of e-learning systems. Some concepts from the Artificial Intelligence field can be used in developing such systems. The potential for utilizing human knowledge in the university environment will optimize the resources and can be of cost effective and quality assurance factors and provide the university with a sustainable competitive advantage. Assuring the proper knowledge management within the university environment is a more complex issue. This is due to the diverse of topics in one hand and the behavior of the student and the lecturers on the other hand. Effective implementation and success requires a lot of efforts that will guarantee the utilization of the intellectual capital within the university environment.

Keywords

E-Learning; Knowledge Management; Intellectual Capital; Knowledge Based Systems; Knowledge Engineering; Knowledge Elicitation; Tacit Knowledge.

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