Knowledge Sharing for Academic Enhancement among Computer Science Undergraduates in Nigeria
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2011
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Knowledge sharing is the process by which individuals collectively and iteratively refines a thought, an
idea or a suggestion in the light of experiences and the socialization process through which people share
knowledge with one another. Fallen standard of education in most African countries had been attributed
to many reasons, one of which is that of gaining little or insufficient knowledge from these academic
institutions. Very few students and schools have been able to overcome this barrier through internet and
knowledge sharing and exchange to get up-to-date knowledge and skills from all around the world.
There is a need for these few to share their knowledge with others for academic enhancement. Many
knowledge sharing and social networking sites abound today on the internet, where users of these sites
share and exchange information but there is rarely anyone specifically designed for academic knowledge
sharing among Nigerian students. Most students wastes a lot of time, energy and other resources
navigating existing sites and engaging in social interactions but not gaining any particular academic
knowledge that will be of use in their discipline. A web-based student knowledge sharing system (SKSS)
is therefore designed in this work to specifically facilitate academic knowledge sharing and interaction
between Nigerian computer science undergraduates. Utilizing the system built in this work will help to
generally enhance academic knowledge and improve the academic performance of the undergraduates,
as valuable knowledge in the areas of algorithms, programming languages, software development,
computer networking and engineering and other important topics could be easily shared and solved
together in a timely and efficient manner by removing the obstacles that could be imposed by the
geographical location of the students and their universities. SKSS can easily be extended to incorporate
all other categories of students and disciplines in the country.
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37. Ogunde A. O., Ogunleye G. O., Anidu A. O. and Bamisile O. (2011) “Knowledge Sharing for Academic Enhancement among Computer Science Undergraduates in Nigeria. Computing and Information Systems Journal, Volume 15, No. 1, pp. 27-35. Published by the University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom.