Developing Knowledge Management System for Supporting Learning Activity in the Ceramics Craft Education

Abstract

Traditional craft education greatly relies on teacher-student relationship that transmits knowledge of skills and processes through demonstration. This way of distributing craft knowledge decreases the learning effectiveness for lack of methodical knowledge retrieval and sharing approach. This paper presents a knowledge management system that transfers tacit knowledge of the craft practitioner in collaboration with the teacher’s pedagogy in the craft education. Initially, a protocol analysis is used to capture the tacit knowledge from the external expert of craft practitioner and paired with the teacher’s pre-class preparation stored in the current teaching archive. Focused on the procedural type of knowledge, the proposed knowledge management system is examined in a ceramics craft course offered in the author’s department. This paper illustrates the picture of linking KM system with craft teaching scenario. Through the aid of multimedia learning environment, students show encouraging progress in their creative works based on the support of the knowledge management system.