Towards a Personal Knowledge Model (PKM) in Collaborative Environment of School Teachers’ Community

Abstract

This paper discusses the concept of teachers' community of practice (CoP) based on personal knowledge management (PKM) in order to facilitate knowledge sharing among them. There are some knowledge are scatted and not well manage around the school teachers. This is lead toward waste of time, cost, and difficulties to find and applying the knowledge when it was needed. In order to solve these problems a PKM model is proposed. The result reveals that in managing the knowledge, the process distribution of its importance in term of knowledge acquisition, storage, dissemination, and their application, encouraging teachers CoP learning, teaching cooperation and knowledge sharing, establishing performance assessment mechanism of knowledge applications and development.Keywords: personal knowledge, personal knowledge management (PKM), knowledge management (KM), school teacher and community of practice (CoP)