Comparison of knowledge management technologies in academic environment

These days, students and lecturers are trying getting more information for doing their projects in academic environment. They need to share ideas and use their friends´ knowledge to improve their works. They have to enhance some new skills to meet the needs of knowledge society. In this paper, we will compare and investigate four knowledge management technologies that can be useful for students and staff to share information and increase their knowledge in academic environments. We will analyze how knowledge management plays roles and has important effect on education from different points of view. By analyzing, we find four knowledge management technologies such as data mining, case-based reasoning, information retrieval, topic maps, weblogs, e-Portfolio, are playing important roles in education environments.