Authors:
Lamia Berkani
1
;
Azeddine Chikh
2
and
Omar Nouali
3
Affiliations:
1
USTHB University and Higher National School of Computer Science, Algeria
;
2
KSU University, Saudi Arabia
;
3
CERIST, Algeria
Keyword(s):
Communities of practice, CoP, CoP of e-learning, Knowledge management, Knowledge capitalization, Ontology-based framework, Semantic annotation.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Best Practices & Communities of Practice
;
Communities of Practice
;
Computer-Supported Education
;
e-Business
;
Education/Learning
;
e-Learning
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Learning/Teaching Methodologies and Assessment
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
Knowledge management in Communities of Practice of E-learning (CoPEs) is challenged by several issues: the complexity of knowledge, considered as interdisciplinary (psycho-cognitive, pedagogic, software-oriented, and hardware-oriented), the difficulty to access and reuse that knowledge, and the complexity of the knowledge capitalization process. Most of the knowledge exchanged is mainly tacit, based on direct communication between members, and therefore needs to be elicited and represented in a formal way to be capitalized. Explicit knowledge is generally shared and accessible through the CoPE’s repositories. However, it is not always well elicited and organized. In this paper, we propose an ontology-based framework for capitalizing knowledge for reuse in CoPEs. We show through an example of use how semantics can contribute to the management of the tacit knowledge that the community members own and therefore to the improvement of the learning process in CoPEs.