Integration of a Concept Map Generator and a Knowledge-Portal-Based E-learning System

Knowledge management (KM) is the research field aimed to create, organize, and store explicit knowledge for easy access and manipulation, whereas e-learning is concerned with delivering a suite of knowledge contents to a group of learners via the Internet. Since e-learning techniques have grown quickly nowadays to complement the conventional learning system, integration of KM and elearning has been a tendency to improve the creation, organization, and delivery of a learner-oriented knowledge management system. Particularly, knowledge portal systems are usually efficient vehicles to realize this integration for we can create new content types on the portal sites to serve e-learning purpose. Nevertheless, a knowledge portal site allows the members to create and share their knowledge objects; implying that the website containing group knowledge grows itself unlimitedly and unexpectedly. To display the sitemap of a knowledge portal and observe the concept map of group knowledge, we have...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: CSIE
• Authors: Jyh-Da Wei, Tai-Yu Chen, Tsai-Yeh Tung, D. T. Lee
• Keywords: Computer Science, CSIE 2009, Group Knowledge, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Portal