Eduwiki: An Effective Teachers´ Knowledge Management Platform

Wikis´ simplicity and flexible nature have begun drawing the attention of teachers and educators, who realize that Wikis facilitate collaborative finding, building, and sharing of knowledge. Knowledge management can enable schools to evolve from bureaucracies forged during an industrial era to educational knowledge ecologies that are prepared to compete in a networked information-driven global society. Referred to the advantages of Wikis, the paper describes the needs analysis and architecture of Eduwiki, which focus on Wiki basic service, Personal space, Group space, Resource center and other mechanisms of Eduwiki. These mechanisms are effective when it is used as tools of monitoring and recording processes of teachers´ work. The paper also gives some practical evidences and they suggest that Eduwiki can be used as an effective tool for collaborative lessong-preparing. Also, the teachers´ evaluations are the important reference standards for further improving availability of Eduwiki.