The Knowledge Management Education Hub

Graduate Degrees/Programs

Department of Communication

• Master of Arts (MA) in Information and Knowledge Management (Options: Research track (thesis); Applied track (practicum))¹⁾

Conferences

Department of Information Systems

• International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care (KR4HC)* ²⁾

Graduate Degrees/Programs

Department of Information and Knowledge Management (I-School)*⁴⁾

• Master of Arts (MA) in Information and Knowledge Management (Options: Research track (thesis); Applied track (capstone project/practicum); Specializations: Librarianship – LibSpec)¹⁾
• Doctoral (PhD) Program in Information and Knowledge Management (Options: Avanced research studies track; Direct doctoral track)**

Workshops

Department of Information and Knowledge Management (I-School)*⁴⁾

• Mar 2014: Social media – the organizational challenge (integrative workshop)
  Introductory lecture: Social media – the organizational challeng
  Knowledge sharing, collective intelligence and everything in between
  Presentation of the workshop results, discussion and summary
  Digital – Knowledge management as a basis for multi-channel communication with the public
  Analysis of information from social media – for the employee and the entire organization
• Feb 2013: Measuring the value of information to the organization (integrative workshop)
  Introductory lecture: measuring the value of information
  Roundtable discussions:
  – Table 1: Tangible or direct benefits of information to the organization
  – Table 2: Intangible or indirect benefits of information to the organization
  – Table 3: Benefits from information in the short term
  – Table 4: Benefits from information in the long term
  – Table 5: Quantitative measurement methods of information value
  – Table 6: Qualitative ways of measuring the value of information
  – Table 7: Communication on the value of information to the professional community
  – Table 8: Communication on the value of information to the organization and its managers
  Report of the representatives of the tables, discussion and conclusion

Conferences

Department of Information and Knowledge Management (I-School)*⁴⁾

• Research Conference: Information and Knowledge 2013, November 13, 2013, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
  The annual conference of the information and knowledge researchers is an opportunity for a meeting of researchers interested in the information society in all its aspects and interested in sharing the fruits of their research in areas such as: information in the various fields of knowledge, information and culture, information literacy, information retrieval, social networks, learning and teaching in technological environments, information economy, serious games , libraries and librarians, archives and archivists, information and business, information and management, philosophy of information, sociology of information, knowledge management, information and organizations, organizational learning, Big Data, Data Science . The conference is interdisciplinary and intended for researchers from diverse backgrounds: information and knowledge, librarianship, archival, communication, management, sociology, psychology, information systems, computers, etc.

  Plenary Presentations:
  Research trends in world librarianship
  Strategic Surprise in National and Business Intelligence: a Comparative Study
  Scientific cooperation in the shadow of conflict: a bibliometric analysis
  The Israeli plan to issue smart identification and travel documents and to establish a national biometric database: situational picture and social implications
  For information: Research between information and learning

  Breakout Presentations:
  The National Library’s presence on social networks as a tool to expand its clientele
  Personal files as a source of personal and collective memory
  Digital technologies and the design of the memory of the future: the digitization process of the National Library in Israel
  The public library in Israel activity and audience expectations – marketing and branding of the library in a changing era
  Eliezer Ben Yehuda and the management of Jewish and Israeli knowledge
  The involvement of school librarians in Israel in student research processes and in the provision of consulting services
  Old documents, archivists and prejudices
  How do you search ?? Information needs of students in Israel – research in a multicultural society
  Denial of the Holocaust on websites : signs of French ideology on the popular websites in Google searches
  NeuroIS – use of brain imaging in information science
  Media selection for the announcement of childbirth
  Interactivity in talkbacks in online journalism in Israel
  Parents’ evaluations regarding their children’s online exposure to violent and sexual content
  Content analysis of talkbacks in articles dealing with abuse, violence and neglect of the elderly
  Agenda-Setting, Two-Step Flow and the World of Tech Blogs: The Role of Tech Bloggers in the Flow of Information
  New and traditional media in the mirror of interactivity
  Big data in academia – Why, When and What aspects
  Word shows in a daily newspaper as an expression of the adoption of technological innovation

Seminars

Department of Information and Knowledge Management (I-School)*⁴⁾

Jun 2019: Developing Dynamic Capabilities (DC) through Competitive Intelligence (CI): Effect on Performance

May 2018:Are We There Yet? Predicting Time-to-Conversion Using Search-Diversity
Apr 2018: Open Data & Open Access
Feb 2018: Rethinking Collaborative Filtering: A Practical Perspective on State-Of-The-Art Research Based on “Real-World” Insights and Challenges

Feb 2018: Haifa-LINKS Symposium on “Content Producers: Incentives, Motivations, and Value Creation”
Jan 2018: Intricacies in Applying Machine Learning – Some Lessons Learned

Dec 2017: Bringing Networks to Life – A Theory of Network Dynamics
May 2017: Searching for Community-based Answers
Apr 2017: Information Leakage Detection in Online Social Networks
Jan 2017: Dissecting information processing algorithms in human choice behavior; Perspectives from information theory on population genetic data

Dec 2016: Positively Useless: Exploring the Impact of Irrelevant Information in Online Reviews
Nov 2016: Emergent Roles in Wikipedia

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Nov 2015: Designing an effective large situation display to support teamwork in complex and critical situations
May 2015: Editorial Algorithms – Using Social Media to Discover and Report Local News
May 2015: The role of trust in social networks
Feb 2015: Is there an excuse for servers not supporting Perfect Forward Secrecy?
Jan 2015: Separated by a Common Language? A unified Framework Bridging the Gap Between Language and Networks

Dec 2014: Persuasive Avatars: Using Avatars to Change What We Think and Do; “Paying for content or for the community”? The relationship between social behavior and willingness to pay on content sites
Nov 2014: Visual Analytics of Movement
Oct 2014: Success factors in implementing real-time learning through performance support platforms
Sep 2014: Defining norms in stigmatized virtual communities: Research in the pro-anorexia community
Jun 2014: When social media audience bites back: The personalization of advertising and struggles over value in Facebook’s Sponsored Stories
May 2014: Web Archiving and Web historiography: promises and challenges; Information transparency: Access to the collections of the Israel Art Information Center at the Israel Museum
Mar 2014: Mapping Intellectual Migrations and the Transformations of the Jewish Republic of Letters during the Twentieth Century; Studies in visual aesthetics of human computer interaction

Dec 2013: Crowd-Squared: Amplifying the Predictive Power of Crowd-Based Data
Jan 2013: How do you measure culture

Dec 2012: Learning Patterns in Big Data from Small Data Using Core-sets; The Open Source Promise for Better Service: Lessons from a Preliminary Case Study of Electronic Medical Records; Personality-Targeted Design: Theory, Experimental Procedure, and Preliminary Results
Sep 2012: From human-computer interaction to brain-computer interfaces
Aug 2012: From Game Informatics to Applied Game Science
Jul 2012: Service Design and HCI in Face-to-Face Interaction
Jun 2012: Multi-tasking in the Digital Information Age: Tasks, Information, and Interaction Contexts

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Dec 2010: What Academics Miss When Studying the Emerging Media World and Why It’s Important (Opening of the Department of Information and Knowledge Management)