Knowledge Management Innovations for Interdisciplinary Education: Organizational Applications - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1466619694 ISBN 13: 9781466619692

Publisher: Information Science Reference, 2012

Synopsis

Knowledge management innovations provide essential pathways through which teachers, researchers, students, and knowledge management professionals who are interested in understanding and applying knowledge management theory and practice can transfer their insights and experiences into both organizational and educational settings.

Knowledge Management Innovations for Interdisciplinary Education: Organizational Applications is a detailed resource on knowledge management and innovations that has been written and edited to provide flexibility and in-depth knowledge management innovations, strategies, and practices. The combination of a primary emphasis on theory and practice with applications to interdisciplinary education, as well as organizational environments, makes this book unique among the burgeoning literature on knowledge management.

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About the Author

Sheryl Buckley is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing at the University of South Africa (UNISA). She holds a Primary Teacher's Diploma, Further Diploma in Education, National Diploma in Computer Practice, BEd in Computer based Education, Med in Computer based Education, Postgraduate diploma in Information Management and DLitt et Phil in Information Science. Sheryl previously taught at a High School and at a Technical College for 10 years respectively. Sheryl has been for more than 25 years teaching, researching, practicing and supervising students engaged in research at both doctoral and masters level. Sheryl is a member of the Computer Society of South Africa and an Examiner for the Gauteng Department of Education. In addition, she is a peer reviewer for local, national and international conferences and journals.

Maria Jakovljevic has been recently appointed as an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, the University of Zadar, Croatia. She was an academic staff member at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She specializes in Business Informatics, Life Sciences, Interdisciplinary Innovations and Information and Communication Sciences. She is leading the commission body for the Quality Assurance at the Department of Economics, University of Zadar. She is also a member of the Publishing Committee at the University of Zadar, as well as an active peer reviewer. She presented papers both nationally and internationally.

Review

Nineteen papers examine the importance of knowledge transfer activities between universities and other stakeholders, link knowledge management as a field of education to innovative learning, and assess the impact of applying knowledge management on the innovation of an organization. The contributors propose a model of creativity, invention, and innovation for entrepreneurial engineers, an education-based categorization of vocational workers, and wikis as a tool for collaborative product design. Other topics include the knowledge-centric capabilities of Fundamo financial services, knowledge management performance metrics, innovation policies in the Israeli higher education system, and tools for communities of practice. Buckley teaches at the University of South Africa and Jakovljevic teaches at the University of Zadar. --Annotation ©2012 Book News Inc. Portland, OR

About this edition

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1466619694
• ISBN 13: 9781466619692
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 488
• Editor: Buckley Sheryl, Jakovljevic Maria