Knowledge management for the co-creation of resources for high ability students

By implementing different processes and drawing on experiences, organizations generate knowledge with which to gain benefits. In educational organizations such processes seek to transmit knowledge to students so that they can then apply this to different fields such as science, art, music, human relationships, etc. These processes, along with any previously accumulated experience, need guidelines as to how to store them so that the organization can benefit from this knowledge at a later date when it, for example, creates content. Thus, Knowledge Management allows an organization to learn from its previous mistakes by generating so-called lessons learned. The use of these lessons helps to determine which tools or resources to choose or what decisions to make when engaged in an activity that will have real value for the organization. This paper analyses KM in educational organizations in a specific context: the co-creation of learning resources for high ability students. While these students give brilliant answers and their cognitive, creative and artistic capabilities are more advanced than those of their peers, in many cases they often experience problems with their motivation in learning. At the same time, the educational organizations have difficulties in being able to take advantage of the data and information they have about their students and their learning process in order to help them to be more motivated and to develop their abilities. To identify how KM can help these students we first evaluate the relationship between KM, education and co-creation and then describe how Information Communication Technologies (ICT) can support knowledge management in an educational organization. Next, we characterize high ability students and look at how they learn and act in different situations to identify how KM can facilitate their education. Finally, we present a Knowledge Management System (KMS) designed to support the co-creation process with high ability students based on managing specific roles, developing Personal Learning Environments (PLE) and using the Human Computer Interface (HCI).