A Knowledge Management Approach in Higher Education

We are moving in the global knowledge society, where organizations have to improve their knowledge assets in order to innovate and respond to a changing society. Higher education institutions are in the knowledge business where they are facing new provocations and they have to develop structures and processes to deal with the coming challenges. Within this framework, the development of a system based on the management of knowledge is likely to be a solution to lead them toward organizations, which have the ability to react intelligently and adapt to changing external conditions. Nevertheless, knowledge management in higher education is a new field, and experiments are just at a beginning in these organizations. This study has investigated the introduction of knowledge management into higher education, holding forth the development of a knowledge management environment based on collaboration technology as a possible solution for a more targeted and effective knowledge creation, sharing and transfer.The original publication is available at JAIST Press http://www.jaist.ac.jp/library/jaist-press/index.htmlProceedings of KSS'2007 : The Eighth International Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences : November 5-7, 2007, [Ishikawa High-Tech Conference Center, Nomi, Ishikawa, JAPAN]Organized by: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technolog