In today’s society, knowledge is becoming a valuable asset and, for that reason, its transference has become a strategic resource of organizations (Gairín et. al, in press). In fact, the current aim of many organizations is to make optimum their intellectual resources (OCDE, 2000; Ichijo & Nonaka, 2007). As CIDEC affirmed (2001, p. 9), the organizations that have at their disposal a higher knowledge, have the ability to coordinate their resources and their traditional competences and give them shape to new ones, so they are ready to offer an added value and obtain an advantage regarding other institutions. Knowledge involves on this matter, a strategic resource of higher importance and the capacity of generating, coding, managing and possessing, the strategy that allows a sustainable added value (Collison & Parcell, 2003; Basu & Sengupta, 2007).

Knowledge Creation and Management (henceforth, KCM), cannot be understand without an organizational structure and without persons who take care of the development of necessary tools (Nonaka, 1994; Ichijo & Nonaka, 2007) to achieve that processes of KCM become a reality that allow to manage the intellectual capital of the members, improve the organizational results and increase the expectancies (Gallego & Ongallo, 2004; Gairín et al.in press).

In this sense, it is a work method that makes the most of the existing resources as a strategy that increases the organizational potential (Benavides & Quintana, 2003). Thus, the main contribution of this paper is the analysis of different on-line proposals of KCM that are being carried out in the recent years in higher education institutions. Precisely, the motivation that drives this project is the lack of significant experiences and researches on the subject in the field of education. So, basing on general considerations about the subject and the tools linked to it, we show some experiences linked to KCM, trying to characterize the experiences analysed from the abovementioned perspective (Barrera-Corominas, Fernández de Álava & Díaz Vicario (2011).

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