Communities of Practice vs Traditional Student Approach: CoPs in Academic settings
Tweet By Guest Blogger: Lindsey Millan is an employee and graduate student at Kent State University. In her free time, she enjoys reading, roller skating, and spending time with her daughter. She is incredibly grateful for her husband Nate, who is supportive all of her endeavors. Over the past 10 years or so, higher education systems have seen a demand for more online courses and programs of study. This demand has forced institutions to think about course development and the overall learning community in a different way. We often refer to the “traditional” student in higher education: the recent high school graduate who lives on campus and is working on their degree full-time. However, student demographics are changing, and the “traditional” student is becoming less of a reality at many institutions. A growing number of students fall into the “non-traditional” category: working professionals who have more pressing demands…
The Importance of Knowledge Management
Tweet by Edwin K. Morris on 12/7/2016 11:45 AM Edwin K. Morris Pioneer Knowledge Services Contact@pioneer-ks.org Knowledge management is a contemporary business practice and organizational capacity builder that is recognized and used by governments, military systems, industries, corporations, foundations, and academia. The World Health Organization considers “KM to be the dual challenge of, first, managing information and processes and, second, managing people and their environment so that knowledge is created, shared and applied more systematically and effectively.” (World Health Organization, 2005, p. 8) Effective knowledge management economizes and creates opportunities for learning across at an enterprise level. This effort enables better and faster decision-making and reduces resource mismanagement by creating a learning and knowing culture. A culture that shares and provides the opportunity for reflection then learning becomes foundational in the organizational culture. The result is an organization that gains strength and agility as the system continually builds and leverages the…