Posted by Denham on June 04, 2000 at 15:56:35:

In Reply to: KM in education posted by Dr Edward Sallis on June 04, 2000 at 12:21:59:

Greetings Ed,

I share your interest in KM and higher education and will be starting a KM knowledge community on the IUPUI campus here in Indianapolis soon.

What impact can KM have on higher education insitutions?
Would this will be much the same as KM in traditional industry?
(1) Improved communication, learning and collaboration across academic departments and disciplines, between faculty and staff and among learning institutions
(2) Increased awareness, creativity and reflection, attention to personal and personell development.
(3) Greater involvement with students (customers?), seeking to improve relationships, capturing inputs and paying attention to critique and suggestions.
(4) Faster & more flexible product delivery, i.e. adoption of distance learning, greater freedom in curriculum mix & match, more accommodation for anywhere, anytime learning.
(5) Emphasis on community learning, moving from 'sage on the stage' to joint discovery and construction of meaning with peers.
(6) Faculty has been slow to adopt collaborative mindsets and technologies for their own research and cognitive work, perhaps a focus on intellectual capital, creativity, connectivity, coporative memory, idea generation and validation prompted by KM tools and practices in business will change that?

I see huge impacts coming down the pike in terms of digital publishing, collaborative and community learning, distance learning, commercialization & ownership of content, copetition with corporate universities and changing faculty student relationships & expectations. When you have a new education medium (read internet) you have opportunity for radical rethinking. I think KM will have a say in all of these.

What then are your perceptions or your questions?

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