The Future of e-Learning: a shift to knowledge networking and social software

Our journal article "The future of e-learning: a shift to knowledge networking and social software" has been published by INDERSCIENCE PUBLISHERS. The article can be downloaded here (.pdf). Your comments are welcome!

Abstract:
The main aim of Knowledge Management (KM) is to connect people to quality knowledge as well as people to people in order to peak performance. This is also the primary goal of Learning Management (LM). In fact, in the world of e-learning, it is more widely recognised that how learning content is used and distributed by learners might be more important than how it is designed. In the last few years, there has been an increasing focus on social software applications and services as a result of the rapid development of Web 2.0 concepts. In this paper, we argue that LM and KM can be viewed as two sides of the same coin, and explore how Web 2.0 technologies can leverage knowledge sharing and learning and enhance individual performance whereas previous models of LM and KM have failed, and present a social software driven approach to LM and KM.

Reference:
Chatti, M.A., Jarke, M. and Frosch-Wilke, D. (2007) ‘The future of e-learning: a shift to knowledge networking and social software’, Int. J. Knowledge and Learning, Vol. 3, Nos. 4/5, pp.404–420.
Special Issue on Learning and Interacting in the Web: Social Networks and Social Software in the Web 2.0.
Guest Editors: Miltiadis D. Lytras, Sheizaf Rafaeli, Stephen Downes, Ambjorn Naeve and Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos