Abstract: This paper describes the crucial role of systems engineering and knowledge management in business. The importance of postgraduate education in both systems engineering in general and knowledge management in particular is stressed and the subjects are discussed with particular reference to two distance learning MSc courses. These two degrees both plan to use
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Knowledge management teaching and dissemination concepts
Abstract: This paper describes knowledge management teaching and dissemination concepts to support the training of professionals in an organization to manage their knowledge assets. They are based on AIAI’s experience of working with large organizations to establish a technical knowledge management framework and to support their personnel in implementing the framework.
Knowledge management programs at RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)
Abstract: The Department of Information Management and Library Studies (DIMALS) in the School of Business Information Technology at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, has undergone fundamental changes in mission and objectives since 1994. Faced with falling demand for its programs, growing competition from non-LIS departments, and changes both to the corporate strategy of the
Education for knowledge management
Abstract: There are two key problems in designing curriculum for knowledge management (KM). The first is that what the business community means by KM is in many cases not what the academic community understands the term to mean. Second, professional schools while providing the educational background needed for subsequent more senior positions, tend to
Adult IT programs: a discourse on pedagogy strategy and the Internet
Abstract: Discusses strategies for implementing modern knowledge management curricula in academic programs for adult professionals. References the perspectives of multidisciplinary curricula covering information and society; multimedia and hypermedia; electronic information design and presentation; and infrastructure development and implementation. The analysis assumes the increasing involvement of highly trained professionals in adult education programs; the continuing