Knowledge Management as a Link between Business and Higher Education in Bulgaria

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Sashov Zhechev ◽  
Emiliya Stoyanova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Management

scholarly journals Understanding the key processes of excellence as a prerequisite to establishing academic centres of excellence in Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abebaw Fekadu ◽  
Claire Oppenheim ◽  
Tsegahun Manyazewal ◽  
Corey Nislow ◽  
Yimtubezinash Woldeamanuel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Academic Excellence ◽  
Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Centers Of Excellence ◽  
Participatory Leadership ◽  
Pubmed Search ◽  
Google Search ◽  
Centres Of Excellence

Abstract Background Africa’s economic transformation relies on a radical transformation of its higher education institutions. The establishment of regional higher education Centres of Excellence (CoE) across Africa through a World Bank support aims to stimulate the needed transformation in education and research. However, excellence is a vague, and often indiscriminately used concept in academic circles. More importantly, the manner in which aspiring institutions can achieve academic excellence is described inadequately. The main objective of this paper is to describe the core processes of excellence as a prerequisite to establishing academic CoE in Africa. Methods The paper relies on our collaborative discussions and real-world insight into the pursuit of academic excellence, a narrative review using Pubmed search for a contextual understanding of CoEs in Africa supplemented by a Google search for definitions of CoEs in academic contexts. Results We identified three key, synergistic processes of excellence central to institutionalizing academic CoEs: participatory leadership, knowledge management, and inter-disciplinary collaboration. (1) Participatory leadership encourages innovations to originate from the different parts of the organization, and facilitates ownership as well as a culture of excellence. (2) Centers of Excellence are future-oriented in that they are constantly seeking to achieve best practices, informed by the most up-to-date and cutting-edge research and information available. As such, the process by which centres facilitate the flow of knowledge within and outside the organization, or knowledge management, is critical to their success. (3) Such centres also rely on expertise from different disciplines and ‘engaged’ scholarship. This multidisciplinarity leads to improved research productivity and enhances the production of problem-solving innovations. Conclusion Participatory leadership, knowledge management, and inter-disciplinary collaborations are prerequisites to establishing academic CoEs in Africa. Future studies need to extend our findings to understand the processes key to productivity, competitiveness, institutionalization, and sustainability of academic CoEs in Africa.

scholarly journals Design, measurement and analysis of a Knowledge Management model in the context of a Mexican University

Innovar ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (59) ◽  
pp. 21-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gibrán Rivera González ◽  
Igor Antonio Rivera González
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Model Fit ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Leadership Culture ◽  
Measurement And Analysis ◽  
Question Survey

The paper aims to design and apply a Knowledge Management (KM) model within the context of a Higher Education (HE) institution in Mexico. The model is composed of six enablers: leadership, culture, structure, human resources, information technologies and measurement, which facilitate the processes of knowledge creation, storage, transfer and application. A 53-question survey applied to thirty-six (36) people allowed to evaluate the degree of development and implementation of knowledge enablers and processes. Objectivity, reliability and overall model fit were assessed.

scholarly journals Knowledge Spirals in Higher Education Teaching Innovation

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 16-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ángel Fidalgo-Blanco ◽  
María Luisa Sein-Echaluce ◽  
Francisco J. García-Peñalvo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
System Development ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Knowledge Management System ◽  
Teaching Innovation ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Organisational Knowledge ◽  
Individual Knowledge

A R&I&i process for a knowledge management system development is presented. It transforms different institutions experiences into organisational knowledge applicable to an entire sector, the higher education one specifically. The knowledge management system allows classifying, organising, distributing and facilitating the application of the knowledge generated by the faculty. A study, with more than 1000 system users, reflects that the system helps to the faculty in the way they perform educational innovation activities. The supported model integrates both Nonaka's epistemological and ontological spirals. This allows defining ontologies and used them in order to transform the individual knowledge into organisational one. The knowledge management system encapsulates complex logic expressions and ontologies management, making easy for the users obtaining successful results that may organise in their own way, becoming a powerful knowledge management process that combines epistemological and ontological knowledge spirals to convert individual experiences in educational innovation into organisational knowledge in the higher education sector.

scholarly journals Integrating inquiry learning and knowledge management into a flipped classroom to improve students’ web programming performance in higher education

2019 ◽  
pp. 304-324
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Inquiry Learning ◽  
Learning Performance ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Inquiry Based Learning ◽  
Web Programming ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Engaging Student

In view of the benefits of inquiry-based learning and knowledge management (KM) in triggering students’ communication and knowledge construction and the benefits of a flipped classroom in engaging student learning in- and out-of-classroom, this study proposed to integrate inquiry learning and KM into a flipped classroom to cultivate student web-programming learning performance in a higher education setting. Fifty-one university students participated in a web-programming course. The students in the experimental group used the proposed approach, while those in the control group used the conventional inquiry-based flipped classroom approach. The results indicated that integrating KM and inquiry-based approach into a flipped classroom can improve students’ programming skills and code comprehension and help them learn more effectively with better learning achievements.

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