A Skill Sharing Platform for Team Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange

Victor Obionwu, Andreas Nürnberger, Gunter Saake

Abstract: Teamwork or collaborative learning processes are known to be highly dependent on the connection and subsequent interactions that are established among the participants. It encourages knowledge creation and sharing, which results in participants developing faster skills with respect to the subject matter. Platforms such as blogs are known to be efficient in stimulating reflection, a sense of community, and collaboration. Thus, in this study, we discuss our blog implementation in SQLValidator, a web-based learning platform that focuses on database-related courses. We further discuss the students’ experiences while using blogs as knowledge acquisition tools. Furthermore, qualitative data were collected from the observation of students to gain more perspective about their experiences in using the blogs in their learning.