Organized knowledge sharing with book-centered Web sites: An architecture, implementation and analysis

Information Technology and Management - Tập 1 - Trang 363-377 - 2000
Clyde W. Holsapple1, Mark P. Sena1
1University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

Tóm tắt

For educators, the World Wide Web offers a valuable technology for knowledge sharing. It can complement more traditional approaches to knowledge sharing such as books and lectures. Here, we identify and differentiate three major approaches for Web-based knowledge sharing: course-centered sites, subject-centered sites, and book-centered sites. A rationale for book-centered sites, those developed to facilitate students’ and instructors’ efforts in courses that use the book, is advanced. We introduce an architecture of features that can guide developers of such sites. This is illustrated by a book-centered site implemented according to the architecture. Several sites for introductory business computing books are compared and contrasted in terms of the architecture, suggesting ways in which each can be extended.

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