The Meaning and Development of KM in E-Learning According to the CARID Experience

Abstract

Knowledge management and e-learning have many common elements: both are based on information and knowledge exchange, but the most important element marking this relation is the structure of the knowledge, necessary issue in order to organize and efficiently share the stream of information. CARID, the Academic Centre for Didactic Research and Innovation at the University of Ferrara, has developed a particular method for the representation of knowledge contexts and the support for information streaming, all based on indexes and expansible concept maps.