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Through a directive, the Philippine higher education institutions (HEIs) are instructed to continuously perform the plan-do-check-act cycle in developing an outcomes-based, progressively brought together and less departmentally based educational plans as they advanced into a mature institution which requires the stakeholders to communicate and collaborate among each other and coordinate their activities. The paper aims to unfold the design parameters of a collaborative and knowledge sharing tool (CKT) considering the most critical factors affecting its implementation and shall serve as a guide to its development. Using a descriptive-analytical method, it shows that the institution has a strong knowledge management (KM) culture but needs to improve and retool their KM initiative and that the stakeholders are engaged more on socializing and control activities yet a lesser sum on networking, coordinating, and collaborating activities. Decomposed from the problem, design parameters of the said tool includes the plan and usage of a messaging module used for communicating and disseminating knowledge to a network; authoring, assessment and expert profiling modules used for a collaborative acquisition, development and dissemination of knowledge; and a digital library and an academic profiling module used for storing, retrieving and mining the institutional outcomes-based education (OBE) knowledge. |
