Øyvind Smestad

Fostering Knowledge Sharing Among Students: Building an Inter-institutional System Øyvind Smestad

The aim of this research project was to develop a system to allow students from various tertiary educational institutions, taking similar courses, to share common discussion forums. This was seen as important to enable larger communities of learners which could help each other, encourage discussion and give exposure to a more diverse range of opinions. In general to create a system that would make it easier to find knowledge in large networks of information and people.