Developing a Specific Knowledge Transfer Framework for Creating Knowledge Resources in the Area of Special Education

Abstract

There is a lack of discussion and case studies about the adoption and use of knowledge management (KM) in special education in literature. This paper applies the concept of KM to special education and develops a speci¯c knowledge transfer framework of creating online knowledge resources for special education. The results from two special education projects are described to demonstrate the value of the developed framework. This paper provides concrete evidences to increase the awareness of the role and value of KM in the special education¯eld.

Designing a field experience tracking system in the area of special education

“…Faculty and academic program administrators can use the results of data analysis to inform their program development efforts including instruction development, curriculum improvement and policy-making. In essence, the system can be used as a data-oriented decision-making tool or considered as a way to capture knowledge of a broad educational KM system (He, 2013b;He and Abdous, 2013) for field experience management.…”

“…For the above reasons, there exists a pressing need for special education programs to develop customized web-based tools for managing pre-service special education teachers' field experience progress (He, 2013b). Thus, the purpose of this paper is to share our experience in designing and developing a field experience tracking system using Activity Theory.…”