It is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a process of teaching or instructing. For example, "His main goal is to transmit knowledge to students in order to prepare them for success in their studies."
In a collaborative setting, teachers are no longer as experts transmitting knowledge to the students, but they act as experts who design academic programs for students, as instructors or mentors particularly in the emergent learning process.
As a central pillar, we find the traditional lecture with the professor, or the "sage on the stage" as put by King (1993), transmitting knowledge to receiving students.
In contrast, lectures in a conventional curriculum are intended for content experts to directly transmit knowledge to the students.
The core value of ECE lies in 'child-centredness' , a popular view in child psychology today which acknowledges individual differences in rates of early development and requires teachers to help children actively construct their own learning experience rather than transmit knowledge to passively participating students (Rao et al. 2009).
Being friendly and equitable is a necessary attitude for a social constructivist teacher, who is considered an advanced learner (Vygotsky 1978) who facilitates students' learning by negotiating (Hand, Treagust and Vance 1997), rather than a person who transmits factual knowledge to students and considers them as empty vases.
I think that as an expert in my field I am eminently suitable to transmit my knowledge to students and that students should not have to look up that knowledge for themselves.
They struggled to communicate their vast knowledge to students.
Transmitting knowledge in bytes from server to student in a sterile (little or no human teacher intervention), electronic environment is deemed to be a much cheaper means to impart information.
He cared about transmitting knowledge that would be helpful to business school students so he founded a business school.
Most of our educational system is geared to transmitting knowledge already recorded.
