Knowledge management and higher education a critical analysis /

"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.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: IGI Global.
Other Authors: Metcalfe, Amy Scott, 1967-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2006.
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Table of 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.