TY - CHAP
T1 - A social knowledge management platform for universal primary education online
AU - Bandyopadhyay, Somprakash
AU - Bardhan, Arina
AU - Dey, Priyadarshini
AU - Banerjee, Shrabastee
AU - Das, Srimoyee
AU - Mandal, Kalyan S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, IGI Global.
PY - 2016/7/13
Y1 - 2016/7/13
N2 - Social knowledge management is a framework that allows its users to create and modify content collaboratively using social media and web 2.0 technologies. Social knowledge management can also be defined as the management of social knowledge where it is aimed towards social development. India today is facing a huge rural-urban divide with regard to poor learning achievement at the elementary level in remote rural areas. Remote rural schools are engulfed with problems such as the unavailability of good quality teachers and a poor learning environment. In this context, the chapter seeks to utilize a robust social knowledge management framework to impart universal education in the form of both formal and informal knowledge to the masses in remote rural areas by mobilising free online knowledge resources and the dormant knowledge capital of educated senior citizens. It further illustrates the design and development of a social media based knowledge management platform named OwlishOracle that addresses issues of exclusion and unequal educational attainment through "connecting generations".
AB - Social knowledge management is a framework that allows its users to create and modify content collaboratively using social media and web 2.0 technologies. Social knowledge management can also be defined as the management of social knowledge where it is aimed towards social development. India today is facing a huge rural-urban divide with regard to poor learning achievement at the elementary level in remote rural areas. Remote rural schools are engulfed with problems such as the unavailability of good quality teachers and a poor learning environment. In this context, the chapter seeks to utilize a robust social knowledge management framework to impart universal education in the form of both formal and informal knowledge to the masses in remote rural areas by mobilising free online knowledge resources and the dormant knowledge capital of educated senior citizens. It further illustrates the design and development of a social media based knowledge management platform named OwlishOracle that addresses issues of exclusion and unequal educational attainment through "connecting generations".
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85014162298&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4018/978-1-5225-0495-5.ch005
DO - 10.4018/978-1-5225-0495-5.ch005
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85014162298
SN - 1522504958
SN - 9781522504955
SP - 89
EP - 107
BT - Harnessing Social Media as a Knowledge Management Tool
PB - IGI Global
ER -