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IAKM on Knowledge Management Education at ECKM and ICKM 2016

In 2016 the International Association for Knowledge Management (IAKM) adressed the issue of Knowledge Management education right on three occasions. The first two were in the context of the European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM) in September, the third one was on a panel at the International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM) in October.

Prior to the ECKM the association co-organized the pre-conference Doctoral Workshop titled “So what is Next on the KM Horizon?”. In the final session of the workshop, the issue of Knowledge Management education was adressed, where four groups of participants were asked to design a Knowledge Management course targeted to (1) undergraduate or postgraduate students, (2) PhD students, (3) professionals not specializing in Knowledge Management, and (4) professionals specializing in Knowledge Management. Read more about this workshop on the website of the IAKM.

During the ECKM the IAKM further held a special track with a best and most innovative paper award on the topic of “KM in Education and Education in KM”. The papers presented in this track are:

Educating Managers in Knowledge Intensive Organizations
(best paper) What Might the Curriculum in Knowledge Management Programs Tell us About the Future of the Field?
Can KM Strategies Contribute Towards Advising in Higher Education?
KM Strategies Taught for Crisis Preparedness
The Heuristic use of Four ‘Knows’ for Managing Knowledge in Education
Using Enterprise Social Networks as a Knowledge Management Tool in Higher Education
Students’ perception on developing conceptual generic skills for business
(most innovative paper) The Efficiency of Universities in Transmitting Competencies: Employability Readiness of Students
Lifewide, Lifelong Comprehensive Approach to Knowledge Management Education – Emerging Standards

Read more about this track and the paper award on the website of the IAKM or read the papers’ abstracts and purchase the conference proceedings on the website of the ECKM/Academic Bookshop.

The panel discussion at the ICKM was titled “Knowledge Management Education: Five Ws and One H” – the why, what, who, where, when, and how to approach Knowledge Management education. (panel description) After the panelists presented their positions on the five “W” questions again the audience was grouped to discuss the vision of “H”ow to teach or learn Knowledge Management in the future (1) in universities and school and (2) in the industry. Read more about this panel and download the presentations and discussion results on the website of the IAKM. The summarized results of this group work exercise are presented in the article “Five Ws and one H in knowledge management education” (draft).

Boris Jaeger: IAKM on Knowledge Management Education at ECKM and ICKM 2016. KMedu Hub, April 10, 2017.

Updates:

In 2017 the IAKM will again organize an ECKM pre-conference doctoral workshop on “The Future of Knowledge Management”. One focus of this workshop will be “Innovation in KM teaching, learning and assessment practices”, where “IAKM experts will share their recent experience in engaging a group of 120 undergraduate and postgraduate students from different European universities in a successful KM project. In doing so, workshop participants will gain a better understanding of how factors such as organisational technology, culture, strategy and leadership affect the use of knowledge as a factor of production and a critical resource for growth and development in different contexts.” Here you can access the slides and results.

In 2026 the IAKM is organizing an EKMC roundtable discussion on “Teaching Knowledge Management” chaired by Claudia Löschner and Peter Heisig, both from the Information Sciences Department at the Fachhochschule Potsdam, which is about to develop a dual, research-oriented degree program in “Knowledge Management” (funded research project 2026-2028)

Related Resources:

Claudia Löschner, Peter Heisig et al.: Teaching Knowledge Management – Core Foundations, Emerging Topics and Future Curriculum Needs. IAKM Roundtable Discussion @ the 27th European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM 2026), 3 September 2026, Niccolò Cusano University, Rome, Italy

Ettore Bolisani, et al.: The future of KM: short-time goals and long-term vision. Pre-conference IAKM Doctoral Workshop @ the 18th European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM 2017), 6 September 2017, International University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain Workshop description »

IAKM: IAKM Doctoral Workshop: The future of KM. International Association for Knowledge Management News, October 17, 2017 Read more »

IAKM: IAKM Doctoral Workshop: The future of KM. International Association for Knowledge Management Meetings & Conferences, October 2017 Read more »

Meliha Handzic, et al: Knowledge Management Education: Five Ws and One H. Panel @ the 12th International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM 2016), October 11, 2016, Vienna, Austria Panel description »

IAKM: IAKM Panel at the International Conference on Knowledge Management. International Association for Knowledge Management News, October 19, 2016 Read more »

Meliha Handzic, John S. Edwards, Sandra Moffett, Alexeis Garcia-Perez, Aino Kianto, Ettore Bolisani, (2017) “Five Ws and one H in knowledge management education“, VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems, Vol. 47 Issue: 4 (Special issue: Knowledge Management in education, education in Knowledge Management), pp.438-453. Purchase » (publisher) Full text » (draft from authors)

Meliha Handzic, John S. Edwards, Sandra Moffett, Alexeis Garcia-Perez, Aino Kianto, Ettore Bolisani: Knowledge Management Education: Five Ws and One H. Procedia Computer Science, Volume 99, 2016 (Sp), Pages 213-214. Full text »

Sandra Moffett; Brendan Galbraith: Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Knowledge Management, Ulster University, Northern Ireland, UK, 1-2 September 2016. Reading: Academic Conferences and Publishing International, 2016 a href=”https://www.academic-bookshop.com/ourshop/prod_5313193-ECKM-2016-Proceedings.html”>Purchase » (papers’ abstractsBook of Abstracts »)

IAKM: IAKM Special Track during the ECKM 2016. International Association for Knowledge Management News, September 5, 2016 Read more »

Ettore Bolisani, et al.: So what is Next on the Knowledge Management Horizon? Pre-conference IAKM ECKM Doctoral Workshop @ the 17th European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM 2016), 31 August 2016, Ulster University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom Workshop description »

IAKM: Doctoral Workshop – So what is Next on the KM Horizon? International Association for Knowledge Management News, September 16, 2016 Read more » (Original »)