Knowledge management and higher education a critical analysis
Title:
Knowledge management and higher education a critical analysis
Author:
Metcalfe, Amy Scott, 1967-
ISBN:
9781591405115
Publication Information:
Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2006.
Physical Description:
electronic texts (xi, 352 p. : ill.) : digital files.
Contents:
Section I: The Application of Knowledge Management in Higher Education -- 1. The Political Economy of Knowledge Management in Higher Education -- 2. Knowledge Management Trends: Challenges and Opportunities for Educational Institutions -- 3. Ontologies in Higher Education --
Section II: Administrative Issues and Knowledge Management -- 4. Toward Technological Bloat and Academic Technocracy: The Information Age and Higher Education -- 5. We've Got a Job to Do, Eventually: A Study of Knowledge Management Fatigue Syndrome -- 6. Institutional Research (IR) Meets Knowledge Management (KM) --
Section III: Knowledge Management of Teaching and Learning -- 7. Revealing Unseen Organizations in Higher Education: A Study Framework and Application Example -- 8. Distributed Learning Objects: An Open Knowledge Management Model --
Section IV: Case Studies -- 9. Policy Processes for Technological Change -- 10. Enterprise System Development in Higher Education -- 11. Higher Education Culture and the Diffusion of Technology in Classroom Instruction -- 12. Wiring Watkins University: Does IT Really Matter? -- 13. Challenges of Complex Information Technology Projects: The MAC Initiative -- 14. A Case of an IT-Enabled Organizational Change Intervention: The Missing Pieces -- 15. Discussion Questions for the Case Studies --
Section V: Resources -- Appendix A: Resources -- Appendix B: Selected Bibliography -- Appendix C: KM Glossary -- About the Authors -- Index.
Abstract:
"Using various social science perspectives, this book provide critical analyses of knowledge management in higher education, with an emphasis on unintended consequences and future implications"--Provided by publisher.
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