Knowledge Creation in Online Environment: Bridge between Self and Collaborative Studies

Abstract

In so-called DX (Digital Transformation) age, the education field has been extended/exchanged rapidly to the online environment, which is logically an open and cyber space, composed virtually through information network, from the face-to-face environment, which is physically a closed space, organized really with persons. In particular, our current situation with the influence of COVID-19 makes the direction clear. However, in the school education it is difficult to grasp at once what the corresponding well-planed strategies are and what the necessarily-estimated effects are. Of course, the goal and methods in the school education and its organization are not equal to those in many of social activities and companies. Moreover, in the education field, the objectives are different between the primary/secondary education and the higher education. In this paper, from a viewpoint of knowledge creation we discuss this problem on the basis of SECI model, proposed by I.Nonaka, et al., and Knowledge Handling model and Knowledge Transfer schema, developed by us.