Knowledge Management and Higher Education

A Critical Analysis

Buch | Hardcover

2005
Information Science Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-59140-509-2 (ISBN)

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Provides critical analyses of Knowledge Management (KM) in higher education, with an emphasis on unintended consequences and future implications, using various social science perspectives. While most books on KM focus on functional issues relating to implementation of KM techniques, this book addresses the social aspects that are largely ignored.

The combination of a techno-centric infrastructure, an electronically-driven business core, and the rise of computer-based instructional techniques creates a campus environment ripe for e-commerce trends. While many books on the topic of knowledge management (KM) focus on functional issues relating to implementation of KM techniques, ""Knowledge Management in Higher Education: A Critical Analysis"" addresses the social aspects of KM that are largely ignored. Using various social science perspectives, ""Knowledge Management in Higher Education: A Critical Analysis"" provides critical analyses of KM in higher education, with an emphasis on unintended consequences and future implications.

Amy Metcalfe is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Metcalfe researches the ways in which information technology affects the climate and culture of postsecondary education and the interorganizational structures of university-industry relations. She is also the author of ""Overcoming Organizational Barriers to Web Accessibility in Higher Education: A Case Study,"" in The Design and Implementation of Web-enabled Teaching Tools, edited by Mary Hricko of Kent State University (Idea Group).

Chapter I. The Political Economy of Knowledge Management in Higher Education; Chapter II. Knowledge Management Trends: Challenges and Opportunities for Education Institutions; Chapter III. Ontologies in Higher Education; Chapter IV. Toward Technological Bloat and Academic Technocracy: The Information Age and Higher Education; Chapter V. We've Got a Job to Do - Eventually: A Study of Knowledge Management Fatigue Syndrome; Chapter VI. Institutional Research (IR) Meets Knowledge Management (KM); Chapter VII. Revealing Unseen Organizations in Higher Education: A Study Framework and Application Example; Chapter VIII. Distributed Learning Objects: An Open Knowledge Management Model.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.11.2005
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Hershey
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	784 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	1-59140-509-2 / 1591405092
ISBN-13	978-1-59140-509-2 / 9781591405092
Zustand	Neuware