Journal: Middle-east Journal Of Scientific Research
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Abstract
The advent of Information Technology has led to increased access to domain knowledge, thus breaking the barriers to knowledge sharing and in turn, greatly benefiting both the teaching and learning community. The current IT-Driven proliferation of knowledge implies that teachers can neither be viewed as sole custodian of knowledge, nor the students as those who know very little. The teaching community must strive to be abreast with the current realities; else, the teachers’ knowledge may become obsolete compared to those of the learners. This research proposes a Bi-Directional Learning Model rooted on collaborative academic growth through effective knowledge sharing. This study begins with an unambiguous clarification of the subject matter using two symbiotic animals as cited in a popular scientific research. The bi-directional model building blocks as well as an expanded framework were designed from the scratch and explained. The concept of symbiotic benefits in bi-directional learning was illustrated using a special data structure called the symbiotic benefit matrix. The computational technique of divide and conquer through formal proof was applied on the bi-directional model workflow vis-à-vis the symbiotic benefit matrix, thus reducing the research problem to the barest minimum. The final outcomes of this work emanate from a research survey specially designed to elicit first hand experiences on the subject matter from respondents, who were mainly seasoned professors, drawn from 32 Universities through a research cluster. A major finding is that bi-directional learning could be of immense benefits to the academic and scientific community, though it could be impeded by a number of factors, some of which were also identified.