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		<description><![CDATA[Having an accessible and secure way to get the most value out of your company&#8217;s information is what enterprise search and knowledge management is all about. In this digital content age, enterprise search  not only creates faster workflow for your company, it also allows for new products to be created because the accessibility of previously created [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Having an accessible and secure way to get the most value out of your company&#8217;s information is what enterprise search and <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">knowledge</span> management is all about. In this digital content age, <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">enterprise</span> search  not only creates faster workflow for your company, it also allows for new products to be created because the accessibility of previously created content is now available Previously, content that was once buried or un-searchable is now found easily through separate searchable content collections.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="more-173"></span>With an easy user-friendly system of a search bar, a person can effortlessly perform custom search within the company&#8217;s entire contentbase as well as connecting to outside sources. Instead of spending countless hours re-creating valuable content, companies can query content within their database and others to retrieve all data related to that text, no matter if it is text, images, graphs or video. Even the smallest footnote can be found with an XML content server.An XML content server acts as a platform for people creating content applications. The top XML content servers use XQuery as the language to communicate with the server while allowing companies to apply extensions for advance text search and transactional updates. For publishing companies, insurance and government agencies, XML content servers with detailed, enterprise search is helping these organizations reuse and repurpose their information thus, saving time while creating a profit. Endless Possibilities With New Knowledge Management Content Servers with Enterprise Search· Instead of spending countless hours re-creating valuable content, companies can query content within their database and retrieve all data related to that text, no matter if it is text, images, graphs or video. · Even the smallest footnote can be found with an XML content server.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">· In this digital content age, enterprise search for organizations not only creates faster workflow for your company, it also allows for new products to be created because the accessibility of previously created content is now available.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Companies who invest in such a platform are finding ways to compete in the digital publishing world, where the days of modern publishing are diminishing. Knowledge management is accessible through enterprise search. Instead of applying an Internet search browser to your organization, that is already flooded with content, apply your company&#8217;s own browser- accessible to only qualified personnel and cut your search time by more than half and witness the results yourself.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">www.enhancelearning.co.in Challenge: There was a need to develop a comprehensive knowledge management system which could be used by companies to manage their learning content. Solution: We developed E-Lore, a knowledge management system which provided the facility to add or modify content, to chat, and to access discussion forums.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Help answer the question about Knowledge Management System</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Is any knowledge management software needed for company? from where I can collect demand statistics?<br />
Want to make really efective knowledge mangement software for USA companies. From where I can get any data &#8220;how many companies are using knowledge management system or software&#8221; etc. ? Please help.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">About the author: Melissa Peterman is a web content specialist For Innuity. For more information about <a style="text-decoration: line-through;" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.marklogic.com/information/enterprise-search.html" target="_blank">enterprise search</a> or <a style="text-decoration: line-through;" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.marklogic.com/information/knowledge-management.html" target="_blank">knowledge management</a> , go to <a style="text-decoration: line-through;" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.marklogic.com" target="_blank">www.marklogic.com</a>Marklogic.</p>
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<p><strong>INTRODUCTION</strong></p>
<p><strong>“The basic economic resource is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor.  It is and will be knowledge.”</strong><strong></strong></p>
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<p>Peter Drucker</p>
<p> Educational Institutions need to tackle challenges of outdated teaching techniques. Leading education organizations around the world are focused on the concept of sustainable improvement. The primary goal is to crea<span id="more-52"></span>te an environment that delivers better learning. A common theme that runs through all strategies for improvement is enhanced communication and collaboration between the important stakeholders groups in the education environment &#8211; students, alumni and parents, administrators and teachers. To enable such changes it is essential they create a robust collaborative Knowledge Management system which will be the propelling force that will help them achieve their goals. <strong>KM </strong>enables<strong> </strong>timely and effective collaboration on curriculum development, sharing of teaching best practices for benefit of organization, better online tools for managing daily information sharing between students &amp; teachers, Case studies, Research &amp; white papers and etc</p>
<p> <strong>KM METHODOLOGY – </strong>Reference to Educational industry <strong>[PROCESS]</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong><strong>Knowledge is what I know;</strong></p>
<p><strong>Information is what we know.</strong></p>
<p> Interest in knowledge <strong>creation</strong> within the institution is growing at an astounding rate. The most effective way to create knowledge sharing culture is first to start practice at individual faculty level. Faculty with appropriate knowledge sharing mindset and the appropriate knowledge sharing technology to support them, the two together, will enable the creation of knowledge effectively. Once the knowledge is created, c<strong>apturing </strong>takes place where in the knowledge database is created and all necessary data is been stored in the form of documents, white papers, Research works, Case studies and in various formats to be presented in usable format and there by making use of knowledge in the broader context. Massive amounts of resources on a daily basis will be present in a institution that they must gather, <strong>categorize</strong>, interpret and disseminate efficiently.</p>
<p> In certain situations, it can be more than threatening for a faculty to introduce knowledge into systems and actively search out that which others have introduced. It can also require a substantial amount of time and effort. Therefore, faculty needs to be highly motivated in order to undertake such work. It is only when a knowledge manager adopts the principle of <strong>knowledge sharing</strong> for the whole institution that knowledge is shared and reused spontaneously.</p>
<p> Knowledge, in addition to being shared between faculties, must be distributed by an institution to its faculty and management community. The dissemination of knowledge has a massive impact on the formation of <strong>competitive advantage</strong>. It is broadly agreed that in order to ensure the proper dissemination of knowledge it is necessary both to lubricate communication and nurture the right culture in the institution.</p>
<p> Knowledge, in addition to being shared between faculty members, must be distributed by an institution to its entire faculty community. The dissemination of knowledge has a massive impact on the formation of competitive advantage. Dissemination also requires the transformation of highly individualized tacit knowledge into more widely shared explicit knowledge. It is not the organizations which own the best knowledge that achieve competitive advantage but, rather, those that make the best <strong>use</strong> of it. In order to make the best use of knowledge it should be fully applied to the activities of the institution and this would require that all the other knowledge processes, namely, creation, dissemination and sharing, should be taking place. <strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>KM STRATEGY-</strong> Reference to Educational industry</p>
<p><strong> </strong><strong>“Knowledge Management is the Innovative and Effective Aid to sustain </strong><strong>the knowledge of the faculty and students to gain an edge in the industry”</strong></p>
<p> Developing a knowledge management strategy provides a unique opportunity to gain a greater understanding of the way the institution operates, and the challenges that confront it. By focusing on identifying staff needs and issues, activities and initiatives can be recommended with the confidence that these will have a clear and measurable impact upon the institution. To be successful, a KM strategy must do more than just outline high-level goals such as &#8216;become a knowledge-enabled institution Instead, the strategy must identify the key needs and issues within the institution, and provide a framework for addressing these.</p>
<p> Knowledge management strategies and drivers must be reviewed from a human resources perspective. The Faculty development cell assists the leadership of an institution in identifying the sources of the required knowledge and the best way to capture it, as well as assessing mastery of knowledge among employees and determining the benefits of that assessment to the institution. Knowledge management can be considered successful if faculty understands how knowledge adds value, how it is created, and why it needs to be managed. The role of Faculty development cell can be summarized as follows:</p>
<p>(a) Training and developing knowledge workers (Faculty);</p>
<p>(b) Developing Asst. Professor, Senior Lecturers and Lecturers as knowledge coordinators;</p>
<p>(c) Building a knowledge-sharing culture.</p>
<p>(d) Developing Professors to be as a part of Km Team</p>
<p> <strong>KM ARCHITECTURE IN EDUCATIONAL INDUSTRY [TECHNOLOGY]</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong>Knowledge has become the key driving force in the present day world. It is generally believed that the only source of competitive advantage in future will be the knowledge. Therefore, in this newly emerging environment, educational industry are required to develop successful KM Architecture, to achieve sustainable competitive advantage; this is possible only through KM Portal. KM architecture is the process which explains the technology and flow of knowledge among the knowledge workers. Knowledge workers include Faculty and students.</p>
<p> The following prototype will predict the knowledge flow and effectiveness of knowledge sharing in educational industry.</p>
<p> The prototype consists of three blocks through which knowledge flows:</p>
<p>-          Faculty/ Student (Creation &amp; Capture)</p>
<p>-          Knowledge Management Team (Organise &amp; Verify)</p>
<p>-          Faculty/ Student/ Management (Access &amp; Use)</p>
<p> First Block:</p>
<p>Faculty Shares the class/ subject resources, Cases, White Papers, Research work, Latest information about the subject and in general. The contents are stored in Documents, Presentations and etc and are stored category/ Function wise.</p>
<p> Second Block:</p>
<p>KM Team is formed and comprises of Subject matter experts based on there specialization. The experts can be Professors, Asst Professors level to review the stored documents and presentations. After verification key points are given to the faculty along with the feedback.</p>
<p>The verified knowledge is stored back to knowledge base for publication, paper presentations, etc and sent to third block</p>
<p> Third Block:</p>
<p>After the review process the Knowledge is available to other faculty, Students and management were the knowledge is shared and gained by others.</p>
<p><strong>INDUSTRY</strong></p>
<p><strong>KM ORGANISATION [PEOPLE]</strong></p>
<p>KM Organisation is the process of Creating KM Team and defining Roles &amp; Responsibilities of the team members in Verifying the Knowledge Captured and Approval of the same.</p>
<p>With increasing emphasis on knowledge-based culture, management is seeking ways to get that knowledge under management remit. The goal is to manage this aspect of the enterprise in the same way as its physical and financial assets. Charged with this are the new roles of &#8220;knowledge managers&#8221; with responsibility for creating the environment and process for dealing with knowledge as a corporate asset</p>
<p>Central to current concerns is the issue of KM Team. Teams, ascribed as the powerhouse of the effective institution, are more intractable from a knowledge management point of view than individuals. By their very nature teams create a great deal of new knowledge, which as such is of high value to the institution. However, the knowledge of how and why they created what they created is more difficult to get at than an individual&#8217;s knowledge, since it exists in a number of different people, and also in their continuous interaction and collaboration.</p>
<p>Km Team comprises of SME’s (Knowledge Managers) which includes Professors, Asst. Professor and Research Associates. The Role is to verify the captured knowledge and send Feedback to the Knowledge Worker. “Key Points” (KP) are allotted to each knowledge worker based on there knowledge they have shared.</p>
<p><strong>PROS OF KM IN TODAYS ECONOMY RECESSION</strong></p>
<p>Economic recession has created a challenge among the students to be competent enough to gain advantage of the limited job opportunities. Thus, KM will help the students to sharpen there skill and be updated with the latest technology and insight of multidimensional concepts.</p>
<p>-          Competent</p>
<p>-          Knowledge about Latest technology</p>
<p>-          Research skill</p>
<p>-          Insight</p>
<p>-          Collaborative Culture</p>
<p>-          Team Work</p>
<p>-          Conceptual Knowledge</p>
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<p><strong>CONCLUSION</strong></p>
<p>KM itself has come a long way and has a long way to go from where it is now. It is indeed a long journey and the trip has just begun. Educational Industry has to sustain the knowledge of the faculty and students to gain an edge in the industry. This is possible only through ‘Effective implementation of Knowledge Management Portal’. A Key success factor in KM is getting optimal emphasis on each of the four focal area People, Process, technology and Content right from the early stages of deployment. <strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>“Knowledge management is necessary for Education Industry because what worked yesterday may or may not work tomorrow”</strong><strong></strong></p>
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<p>What would be a better certification to obtain, Knowledge Management or Certified Administrative Prof.?<br />in terms of what will possibly yield more money.  Thanks.</p>
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<p>I am vanitha, working as a faculty in leading management school in chennai, india. My area of interest is human resources, system, KM.</p>
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<p><strong><u>INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION – KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT</u></strong></p>
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<p><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p>
<p>This paper seeks to identify knowledge management concepts that relate to the implementation of Knowledge management Practices in education and also in collaborative arrangements.  It also discusses about the challenges facing in higher education in<span id="more-88"></span> India and the concept of Knowledge management in education and the new trends of education.  It also explains about the Knowledge management and types of Knowledge management and their trends and new innovations of Knowledge management in current education scenario. Educational trends and tasks are towards more learner- centered materials.  In response to these trends, colleges and universities are offering new courses at a distance and forms traditional delivery.  The effort to share the most recent understandings about Knowledge management in education is the changing roles and challenges for higher education. The increased productivity required by faculty are driving forces for the development of more diverse and efficient teaching method.</p>
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<p><strong>INTRODUCTION:</strong></p>
<p>Knowledge management in education is the collection of processes that govern the creation, dissemination and utilization of knowledge.  In one form or another, knowledge management has been around for a very long time.  Practitioners have included philosophers, priests, teachers, politicians, scribes, Liberians etc., Knowledge management is not “A technology thing” or a “Computer thing” if we accept the premise that Knowledge management is concerned with the entire process of discovery and creation of knowledge then we are strongly driven to accept that Knowledge management is much more than a “Technology thing” and that elements of it exist in each of one Jobs. Knowledge management comprises a range of practices used by organizations to identify, create, represent and distribute knowledge.  It has been an established discipline since 1995 with a body of university courses and both professional and academic journals dedicated to it. Knowledge management is frequently linked to the idea of the learning organization .Knowledge management refers to a range of practices used by organizations to identify the higher levels of innovations in education. The sharing of knowledge in industry, colleges , universities and, almost any institution in this country will make reference to the capturing of knowledge. </p>
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<p><strong>DEFINITION</strong></p>
<p>            “Knowledge management is the discipline of enabling individuals, team and entire organizations to collectively and systematically create, share and apply knowledge to better achieve their objectives”</p>
<p> Knowledge management education is the process of constructivity using the information and knowledge that is inherent to any organisation –be it a school, university or multinational company.  In order to enhance its performance, its management and its operations.  This process of learning to know what we know is one that has brought great benefits.  Particularly to many commercial organizations.</p>
<p><strong>MAARTEN SIERCHUIS: -</strong></p>
<p>Knowledge analysis: In knowledge analysis we model a knowledge source in such away that we can analyse its usefulness, its weakness and its appropriateness within the organization. Knowledge analysis is a necessary step for the ability to manager knowledge. Within knowledge Analysis we can use knowledge modeling and knowledge acquisition techniques.</p>
<p><strong>ROBERT TAYLOR</strong><strong>:- </strong></p>
<p>The vital importance of knowledge in business has always been recognised but, up until now, organisations haven&#8217;t felt able to manage it because they understood neither the problems and the opportunities nor the strategies and solutions. This picture is gradually changing as models, methods, tools and techniques for effective knowledge management are becoming available and as organisations realise the importance of knowledge and thinking to their capacity to adapt to the changing world.</p>
<p><strong>WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT? : &#8211; </strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong>A proposition that responsiveness and innovation can be improved through the leveraging of collective wisdom and experience.</p>
<p> “Knowledge Management (KM) is an effort to increase useful knowledge within the organization. Ways to do this include encouraging communication, offering opportunities to learn, and promoting the sharing of appropriate knowledge artifacts.”</p>
<p> This proposition is supported by:</p>
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<li>New process specific to the management of knowledge </li>
<li>Organizational structures that create accountability for km </li>
<li>Applications that support km processes </li>
<li>Enabling technologies </li>
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<p><strong>THE CHALLENGES FACING HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIA : &#8211; </strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong><strong>Expansion of Higher Education in India</strong> :</p>
<p> The success stories of ‘green revolution’, ‘space technology’, ‘nuclear energy’ and ‘information technology superiority India has achieved’ -  we owe these all to  the higher education system as it evolved during 60 years of India’s independence.  It can not be denied that it is Indian higher education system that to a significant extent has contributed to India rising to become the World’s second fastest growing economy<strong>, </strong>the World’s third largest economy, fastest growing mobile phone market, owner of the largest bandwidth capacity and contributing second largest portion of scientists and engineers in the world.  </p>
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<p><strong> Expansion with Equity :</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong>India has experienced appreciable growth in the number of institutions of higher education during last six decades and particularly since 1990.  This growth has already been because of expansion of number of State Universities and institutions deemed to be Universities.  The period since 1990 has also seen the emergence of private Universities.  The expansion of central universities has rather been slow and skewed in terms of regional distribution.    It also mentioned that a significant majority of Universities, particularly managed by the state governments ate affiliating in nature.  Given the current number of universities in the country the burden of affiliating colleges per University is unmanageably high and incongruous, in some cases the number of colleges affiliated to a University runs as high as many hundreds.  Thus despite appreciable growth in number of universities there is scope rather need for further expansion in the number of universities and also colleges.<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong><strong>Inclusiveness and Equality :</strong></p>
<p>The participants in the Diversity, Inclusiveness, and Inequality track represented a great deal of diversity themselves and included faculty and students from a rich variety of research institutions, private liberal arts colleges, and community colleges. While participants engaged issues and strategies in each of the three substantive area—diversity, inclusiveness, and inequality in education (DIIE)—the bulk of our conversations focused on diversity and inequality.<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Quality and Excellence :</strong></p>
<p>Ensuring quality education demands structural and institutional reforms in addition to committing enhanced financial resources. Imparting quality education would entail better infrastructure; greater use of ICT; teaching and learning in smaller groups; granting autonomy to the faculty, department and individual teachers. But more than that, imparting quality education requires ‘<strong>faculty development’</strong> or what many call <strong>‘faculty recharge programmes’</strong> so that the faculty does not go stale, it retains its vibrancy and dynamism in doing research, in learning, and innovating and in devising new methods of teaching.</p>
<p> In the modern technological world quality education has become a necessity. Governments all over the world are appointing committees and commissions to bring in excellence in education. Curricular are being revised and improved to include more and more relevant knowledge in the curricula of schools and colleges.<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong><strong>Funding of Higher Education : </strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong>The importance and need of setting up these new institutions of higher and professional education can hardly be ignored, but investing in existing facilities and institutions should be no less a priority.</p>
<p>Fee hike suggested by many can hardly bring the required resources.  We by no means are suggesting that fee need not be rationalized.  In addition it is suggested that there is need for building a robust and strong private – public partnership for funding and improving the quality of higher education.  We have no hesitation in endorsing the suggestion as we see the practical and mutual advantages to private houses, industries on one hand and the higher education institutions and recipients of higher education on the other.  For example, the Universities and research institutions can do the research and innovations which may provide competitive edge to Indian industry and industry may provide on the site based experience to students.  <strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Academic and Administrative Reforms</strong> : <strong></strong></p>
<p>Unlike expansion, equity/inclusiveness and quality/excellence, where efforts are in making, the policies concerning reforms in the arena of academics, administration and governance are already well formulated and publicity announced. </p>
<p>While these recommendations about credit system, semester system, more of international assessment and less written examination component, teachers evaluation by students, inter-institutional mobility etc have been generally accepted, quite a few of them have not been implemented and operationalised as yet.  Some of these have been tried and failed while some others have been implemented on selective basis.  As a result there is a lot of institutional variations in admission, examination, faculty and governance related practices.<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Role of Private Education :</strong></p>
<p>The spread of higher education was achieved through active state support whereby public funding was considered necessary in order to provide equitable opportunities of higher education to all.  It has, however, been a proclaimed policy of the country to also encourage private investment in higher education so long as they are driven by charitable and non-profit motives.  While universities have largely been in the public domain, India has had a history of having large number of colleges established and maintained by private management.  In recent times, the private self-financing institutions colleges and other degree awarding institutions have gained prominence.  At the same time, there has also been witnessed a tendency among the public funded institutions to start and run courses on self-financing basis.   More recently, the private universities, either under state legislature or through the deemed university mode have also come to be established.</p>
<p><strong>Internationalization of Education : </strong></p>
<p>The issues concerning internationalization of higher education can be discussed into two broad heads, which represent two broad dimensions of the issue. The first aspect deals with the demand for opening Indian higher education for international service providers while the second aspect deal with the internationalization of Indian higher education. Going abroad for higher education has long been the most cherished goal for students of underdeveloped and developing countries.  While most foreign students were known for their diligence and dedication and were often a source of pride for their universities, they were seldom seen as a source of revenue. But things have changed a great deal in the post WTO/GATS regime.</p>
<p> Developing countries are now seen as a market for higher education and foreign universities from other countries are competing each other to increase their market share.  As the demand for opening the higher education sector in India for international service providers is increasing, the issue of providing appropriate regulatory framework for international education providers is under consideration of the government.  Effective regulatory mechanism is required to ensure quality higher education with equity and accountability. It was also felt that Indian universities and colleges should be permitted to form strategic alliances with international universities and other institutions of repute and that universities in India should be permitted to take up collaborative research with foreign universities but the arrangements should be such where Indian counter parts share Pattern Rights  and copyrights.<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong><strong>CONCEPT OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN EDUCATION: &#8211; </strong></p>
<p> </p>
<ul>
<li>Education for Knowledge </li>
<li>Education for Information </li>
<li>Education for Skills </li>
<li>Education for Employment </li>
<li>Education for Livelihood </li>
<li>Education for Empowerment </li>
<li>Education for Social and National Development </li>
</ul>
<p><strong> </strong><strong>KEY TASKS INVOLVED IN EDUCATION FOR:</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong><strong>KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT </strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong><strong>A. MICRO-LEVEL MANAGEMENT OF TASKS: </strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Course structuring and study material preparation </li>
<li>Distribution and presentation of study materials </li>
<li>Communication between educational actors (student-faculty, student-student) </li>
<li>Performing instructional assignments, either alone or group-based </li>
<li>Performance assessment<strong></strong> </li>
</ul>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>B. MACRO-LEVEL MANAGEMENT OF TASKS: </strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Organisation of the whole educational process </li>
<li>Organising and managing information and knowledge flows within the educational organisation </li>
<li>Keeping track of performance of students, faculty, courses, curriculum, and of the (allocation of) available knowledge resources </li>
<li>Monitoring results in terms of goals and standards </li>
<li>Dynamic changing of the educational program as feedback to discrepancies between goals and standards and obtained performance results.<strong></strong> </li>
</ul>
<p><strong> </strong><strong>KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT FOCUS : </strong></p>
<p>“The focus on knowledge management is on ‘doing the right thing’ instead of doing things right’. It provides a framework within which the organization views all its processes as knowledge processes and all business processes involve creation, dissemination and application of knowledge towards organizational sustenance and survival”. </p>
<p> <strong>KNOWLEDGE TYPES:</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong>It contains two types they are ;</p>
<ul>
<li>Explicit knowledge </li>
<li>Tacit knowledge<strong></strong> </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Objective, rational, technical </li>
<li>Easily documented </li>
<li>Easily transferred / taught / learned </li>
</ul>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>TACIT KNOWLEDGE</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Subjective, cognitive, experiential learning </li>
<li>Hard to document </li>
<li>Hard to transfer / teach / learn<strong></strong> </li>
<li>Involves a lot of human interpretation </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT PROCESS : -</strong></p>
<p>The process of Knowledge Management applicable to schools, colleges and universities. Some would argue that sharing knowledge is their reason of being. If that is the case, then the higher education sector should be replete with examples of institutions that leverage knowledge to spur innovation, improve services, or achieve operational excellence. However, although some examples exist, they are the exception rather than the rule. Knowledge Management is not a new field, and experiments are beginning to mature in higher education.</p>
<p>I believe there is tremendous value to higher education institutions that develop initiatives to share knowledge to achieve business or organizational objectives. What are the basic concepts of knowledge management, how the trends, and how it might be applied in higher education and whether higher education is ready to embrace it or not, we will know through this article.</p>
<p><strong>NEW TRENDS IN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: -</strong></p>
<p>Several trends will shape the field of knowledge management in the not-too distant future (even now):</p>
<p> </p>
<ul>
<li>Emerging technology solutions </li>
<li>The convergence of knowledge management with e-business </li>
<li>The movement from limited knowledge management projects to more enterprise wide projects </li>
<li>Increasing use of knowledge management to enhance innovation </li>
<li>Increasing use of tacit knowledge (rather than explicit knowledge) <strong></strong></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>INNOVATIVE SKILLS OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN CURRENT EDUCATION SCENARIO: -</strong></p>
<p>Using knowledge management techniques and technologies in higher education is as vital as it is in the corporate sector. If done effectively, it can lead to better decision-making capabilities, reduced “product” development cycle time (for example, curriculum development and research), improved academic and administrative services, and reduced costs. Consider the number of faculty and staff who possess institutional knowledge. For example, what institution does not have a faculty member who has led successful curriculum revision task forces? Or a departmental secretary who knows how to navigate the complex proposal development or procurement processes? Or a researcher who has informal connections to the National Science Foundation? Or a special assistant to the president who has uncovered (or generated) useful reports that individual deans or department chairs could use to develop their own strategic plans?</p>
<p>Relying on the institutional knowledge of unique individuals can hamper the flexibility and responsiveness of any organization. The challenge is to convert the information that currently resides in those individuals and make it widely and easily available to any faculty member, staff person, or other constituent. An institution wide approach to knowledge management can lead to exponential improvements in sharing knowledge—both explicit and tacit—and the subsequent surge benefits.</p>
<p>Is higher education ready to embrace knowledge management? A key ingredient in an institution’s readiness to embrace knowledge management is its culture—the beliefs, values, norms, and behaviors that are unique to an organization. Informally, it is the unwritten rules or “how things really get done.” Higher education is moving from the old culture that considers, What’s in it for me?” to a new culture that says, “What’s in it for our peoples?” And it is developing a culture that is ready to embrace knowledge management.</p>
<p><strong>CONCLUSION: -</strong></p>
<p>Innovations in knowledge management will improve the standards of all the institutions, develop the performance of students in all faculties and by which the progress of a nation can be viewed nakedly.  Knowledge management refers to a range of practices used by organizations to identify the higher levels of innovations in education. The sharing of knowledge in industry, colleges, universities and, almost any institution in this country will make reference to the capturing of knowledge.  By developing the knowledge management, the nation’s economy increases and can compete in the global scenario.</p>
<p><strong>Article by:</strong></p>
<p><strong>X.Queen Shanthana Mary</strong></p>
<p><strong>M. Phil Scholar,</strong></p>
<p><strong>Department of management studies &amp; research,</strong></p>
<p><strong>Karpagam</strong><strong> University</strong><strong>,</strong></p>
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<p>What are the problems in knowledge management other than people not sharing their knowledge?<br />some problems are people not sharing knowledge, not getting the right information at right time, what other problems are their that needs to be looked into?   any ideas plss</p>
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<p>With the advent of modern technologies like the internet, it has become easy to get online teaching and learning facilities. This is because, education is considered as one of the most important investments for every person, a strong educational background leads people to pave their career path towards the highest achievement in career field. Nowadays, one can find study materials and live classes from new form of media that includes Tata Sky <span id="more-106"></span>and Dish TV. Moreover, there are a number of websites also available to offer online teaching and learning materials. </p>
<p><strong>Evolution of Online Learning and Teaching</strong></p>
<p>The emerging wish of making effective and successful career and the advent of online technology together act as catalysts to transform the whole setting of institutions learning and teaching. In order to accomplish these requirements, online learning and teaching methods have been pioneered. Most of the educational institutes such as school, coaching, college and university offer the facility of online learning that assures easy availability of study material to students.  </p>
<p><strong>Advantages of Online Learning and Teaching</strong></p>
<p>The first advantage associated with online learning and teaching is that students can avail study materials irrespective of time and place. Other advantage of this facility is that students can attend classes from any part in India as long as they have the internet connections. Students with physical disabilities can also learn and study through online method as they do not have to travel to attend classes. Apart from these, this method is less expensive as students do not need to pay monthly fees to school resulting in lower expense as well as hurdles. </p>
<p><strong>Students of Online Teaching and Learning</strong></p>
<p>In order to accomplish requirements of students who are studying in 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th, a number of websites have come with the study materials of various subjects that include physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics for Classes 11th &amp; 12th. Students can even ask online questions and get their answer from subject experts within 72 hours.  </p>
<p><strong>How to find online Teaching and Learning</strong></p>
<p>If you are looking for online teaching and learning solutions, then go with either DTH platforms such as Tata Sky and Dish TV or various websites. Most of the websites also provide you advanced features to enhance your knowledge such as Tests Online, Study Online, Solved Papers and Ask the Expert. Apart from low cost, this facility claims to offer adequate knowledge to clear any entrance test and/or secure good marks in board exams.</p>
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<p>What is knowledge management?<br />I want to know what KM is all about. Can anyone explain this briefly?</p>
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