Knowledge Management Platform for School Botanical Gardens in Prachuab Khirikhan Province

Abstract

          The objectives of this research were: (1) to develop a knowledge management platform prototype for school botanical gardens in Prachuab Khirikhan Province, (2) to evaluate the developed knowledge management platform prototype, and (3) to demonstrate the use of the developed knowledge management platform. The researchers collected evaluation results from 35 voluntary user-participants who were school administrators, teachers, and students involved in the School Botanical Garden Project in Academic Year 2022.  The research tools were a satisfaction questionnaire and an interview guide. The platform development was in four stages: (1) design and development, (2) system quality assessment by five experts, (3) students using the developed platform over a three-month period and their satisfaction assessment after use, (4) graduate students enhancing the platform efficiency based on feedback from the student users via interviews. The obtained results revealed: (1) the developed platform structure consisted of a content website, lecturer and students database, knowledge evaluation model, knowledge memorandum, web board, knowledge asset, document download and gallery; (2) the user-participants were satisfied with the developed knowledge management platform prototype for school botanical gardens in Prachuab Khirikhan Province because it was easy to access and learn;  and (3) The learning process on the platform comprised five stages: (i) knowledge identification, (ii) knowledge acquisition, (iii) knowledge creation and exchange, (iv) knowledge storage and retrieval, and (v) knowledge transfer and utilization. It was expected that the developed platform prototype can help support students’ learning of botanical gardens and related subjects via their digital skills.

 Keywords: Knowledge Management, platform, learning facilitation, school botanical gardens, Prachuab Khirikhan Province