1Economics & Management, S.V. National Institute of Technology, Surat, India.
2Dept. of Physics, S.V. National Institute of Technology, Surat, India.
3IIM Kozikode, Kozikode, India.
Knowledge is a kind of resource that gets very less attention when we talk about various resources of an organization. But frontier of the application of knowledge management is increasing rapidly. One field where it can be used is as a supplement to classroom education in universities. One such system is in place in Tufts University, and is the case study of this paper. Tufts University Sciences Knowledge base (TUSK) is an award winning, dynamic multimedia Knowledge Management System (KMS), built on open source software. Initiated in 1995 with National Library of Medicine funding, the system can provide the infrastructure and user tools foe sharing of content. Their fundamental mission is to: Manage, integrate and deliver diverse types of curricular information to faculties and students regardless of time, location, course or year of study, foster life long learning, link administrative tools to the curriculum. In this case study, we will analyze the KMS as implemented with TUSK, its advantages, disadvantages and ways in which it can be implemented in other universities, even in non medical profession.
Knowledge Management, E–learning, Knowledge Management System, Content Design
