Transforming the Knowledge Incorporated in e-Learning Software into an Automatable Explicit Knowledge for the Teacher and the Learner

The aim of this paper is to introduce a solution for the disclosure and recovery of the educational knowledge incorporated, and hidden to the user, in the support software for e-Learning. The solution, called SIK (software inherited knowledge), is to add an architectural loose connected component to new or existing software. This component is represented by knowledge repositories that are used in order to systematically acquire, structure, store and maintain knowledge, formalized as rules sets. It investigates also the main benefits that different categories of users – teachers, students, administrators – may have from the recovery of the incorporated knowledge.