Paper presented at SIS 2012 Conference held at NIT Silchar organised by Dr. K C Satpathy

1. E-learning: A Versatile
Tool For Knowledge
Management
NEERAJ

2. WHAT IS E-LEARNING?
• e-Learning is the use of technology to enable
people to learn any time and any where.
• e-learning is actually the barometer of the
development of an individual, organization and
economy in the changing socio-economic
scenario.
• E-learning in two ways.
 First , it includes all kinds of the utilization of
ICT in instruction.
 Second, it is limited to the use of intranet and
internet in teaching –learning process

3. Major areas of e-learning
• “education created and delivered by using
technologies related to computer, the internet and
telephony, in combination or in isolation”.
• Thus, we could classify the definition of e-learning in
three major areas as:
e-learning is any learning that is web-enabled
e-learning is a complete learning solution
e-learning is delivering learning through
amalgamation of technology.

4. Components of E-learning
• After so many definitions, I can say e-learning has
three basic components. These are:
• Content: From traditional learning, content
continuous to be the backbone of e-learning.
Now, the learning shifts from distributed learning
to Internet based and mobile learning, the
presentation of content is going through a
metamorphosis.
1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Media- E-learning E-learning
Help WBT, CD to
Intensive CD- Extending & K M in
Documentation Internet
based Training to K M Web 3.0

5. Components of E-learning
• Services: It can be slotted into the following three categories:
 Expert Service
 Information search service
 Knowledge creation service
• Tools &Technology:
• HTML/ASP/XML
• Macromedia Author ware
• Macromedia Director
• Java
The technologies used within e-learning may be categories are as follow:
• Authoring
• Delivery
• Collaboration

6. Evolution of E-learning
• Actually, e-learning concept is starting from distance
mode of education (paper based) to the application of ICT
(paperless) to make the education time and space
independent and in a more convenient way.
• The evolution of e-learning in details from computer-
based training to the e-learning 3.0.
Computer-based Training (CBT)
Web-based training (WBT)
E-learning 1.0
E-learning 2.0
E-learning 3.0

7. Knowledge Management
• In addition to corporate
environments, knowledge management is
increasingly applied also in education, the
public sector, and other spheres of society.
• Sustainable knowledge management relies on
intelligent preservation of data for their
instant retrieval and re-use in new situations.
• Holistic knowledge management strategies
and applications acknowledge a crucial role of
digital libraries.

8. Relation Between Knowledge Management
and e-learning
• E-learning creates a growing repository of knowledge that will
continuously deliver to employees just what they need to know at any
particular moment, and in a style that each learner can understand.
• E-learning permits participants to acquire knowledge, pass it from one
person to another, apply it to organizational problems/opportunities, and
store that knowledge for future use.
• E-learning potential benefits to business are numerous. Companies are
seeking the kind of easy accessible, highly flexible training that E-learning
can deliver in order to contend with the rapid pace of change in business
and shorter product cycles. One of the most obvious benefits to E-learning
is the economic advantage from not having to fly employees to attend
expensive seminars and thus lose important work time

9. E-learning becomes an effective tool for Knowledge
Management
• It is the need for firms to keep up with the ever changing businesses environment
and shorter product lifecycles.
• Another trend is the growing importance of information sharing.
• E-learning can be taken outside of company firewalls and can be used to educate
firm partners, customers, and suppliers, in addition to the firm’s employees. In
return, the firm can generate new knowledge through the use of chat
rooms, surveys, etc.
• Metadata
 metadata can help organize electronic resources, facilitate interoperability and
legacy resource integration, and provide digital identification, and support archiving
and preservation.
 metadata in e-learning applications into three categories:
 standard metadata
 semi-semantic metadata
 semantic metadata
 but the trend nowadays is to use semantic metadata for its
flexibility, extensibility, and reasoning which leads to pleasing results in facilitating
large scale collaboration.