
Improving knowledge transfer within the SEN ecosystem is a keytactic to enhance the Special Educational Need (SEN) learning process inMauritius. Nonetheless, it has been noted that there is still a lack of study inthis field. Therefore, the goal of this study is to examine how OccupationalTherapists (OTs) use online Knowledge Transfer (KT) tools to transferknowledge to the SEN environment. To do this, the initial goal was to findout which of the three respondents—parents, other professionals, andoccupational therapists—used online resources most frequently to transferknowledge. The second goal was to ascertain which of the three respondents'online resources was better at transferring the knowledge, and the third goalwas to look into any possible connections between online resources and theireffectiveness using three respondents each. A closed-ended questionnairewas utilized to survey 55 OTs on the island to gather information on theeffectiveness and usage of the online resources they used with parents,teachers, and other professionals. Microsoft Excel 2019 and IBM SPSSStatistics 26 were then used for additional data analysis. 22 online resourceswere analyzed and the Kruskal-Wallis test was used to assess how the meansdiffered for the three respondents namely teachers, other professionals andOTs. While e-journals, e-posters, e-conferences, emails, websites, onlinelibraries, online encyclopedias, virtual communities of practice, virtual focusgroups, and virtual workshops were significantly more effective ways for OTsto transfer knowledge to other professionals than to both parents andteachers, e-journals, emails, online libraries, webinars, virtual communitiesof practice, virtual focus groups, and virtual workshops were significantly lessused when communicating with other professionals. However, it has beenconcluded that OTs found it harder to use KT tools with teachers and parentswhich could be due to several reasons. Therefore, more research is advisedto investigate other KT tools to support them.
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