Empowering educators with knowledge management for the development of state-of-art of the curriculum

One of the main aims of any Institute of Higher Technical Education (IHTE) is to impart knowledge to the students in the most effective way, meet the needs of the students more efficiently and improve educational outcomes for the students. To remain ahead of competition, even well established IHTEs have to respond to the challenge by offering learners a dynamic and industry oriented curriculum. To achieve this objective, there is a need to facilitate academia with knowledge management (KM) based platform which can help them design innovative, industry oriented and state-of-art curriculum which has been accomplished in this paper. Astructured questionnaire was designed to investigate the factors for the inclusion in curriculum development portal and its perceived benefits. On the basis of the data and personal interviews, a KM based curriculum development portal design is proposed which can be leveraged by IHTEs to enhance their curriculum development and thereby breed industry oriented professionals. It may also be used to create a blueprint-for developing a knowledge management portal for higher educational institutions.   Key words: Knowledge management, higher education, curriculum development, portal, educational technology.