Knowledge Management Technologies in Education

Nowadays, students are learning in a knowledge society, and they have to master some new skills to meet the needs of knowledge society. In this paper, we will discuss what knowledge is, what is knowledge management and what are knowledge management technologies. Then we will analyze how knowledge management technologies have changed the traditional modes of education and whether knowledge management technologies have important effect on education. By analyzing, we find that knowledge management technologies such as data mining, case-based reasoning, information retrieval, topic maps, weblogs, e-Portfolio, are playing important roles in education.