In our age, the top priority is given to generating knowledge, not the material production. It is inevitable for
educational organizations to experience change and new conceptions about the effective use of knowledge.
Educational organizations where the knowledge is produced, taught and implemented, have to be the indispensable
institutions of the knowledge era (Can, 2002, p.2). Sharing of the knowledge is seen crucial in knowledge
management process. A knowledge community comprises the society of organizations and its fundamental goal is
sharing knowledge by integrating it with a task (Ogut, 2001, p. 20).