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.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: IGI Global
Group Author: Metcalfe, Amy Scott, 1967-
Published: IGI Global,
Publisher Address: Hershey, Pa. :
Publication Dates: 2006.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-59140-509-2
Summary: "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.
Carrier Form: PDFs (xi, 352 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-340) and index.
ISBN: 1591405114 (ebook)
9781591405115 (ebook)
Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
Index Number: LC67
CLC: G64-05
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
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
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:
Section V: Resources -- Appendix A: Resources -- Appendix B: Selected Bibliography -- Appendix C: KM Glossary -- About the Authors -- Index.