Knowledge management is important to every organisation, especially to distance education institutions where staff are geographically dispersed, and students are separated from the university, tutors and classmates. What are the main knowledge management requirements of a distance education institution? How can knowledge management systems solve those requirements? How can semantic web technologies support the knowledge management systems? In this talk, I will present my research motivation, expectation, investigation and conclusion about them. I will also describe the approach to model the knowledge management systems based on user and knowledge ontologies.

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