New Canadian Graduate KM Program
10-Jul-02
The programs are housed in the Science, Technology and Environment division, but also relate to the other three pillars of the university: leadership, peace and conflict, and entrepreneurship.
The graduate diploma and MA emphasise the human, social and environmental aspects of knowledge management, as well as the enabling tools and technologies. Intense, three-week on-campus studies, complemented by internet-based distance learning, allow participants to continue work while developing and sharing new knowledge.
The first graduate diploma learners will complete the program late this summer. The current team of instructors includes residents of Canada, the UK and the United States, and the university hopes to expand their networks of learner, instructor, researcher and practitioner contacts, to share knowledge in a variety of ways.
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- Helen Baxter
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- KnowledgeBoard
- Date:
- 10-Jul-02
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Graduate KM Program: RRU, Canada
In a global context, some of the factors that make the Royal Roads University’s graduate KM programs (www.royalroads.ca/km) unique or unusual include:
1) multidisciplinary nature (not just library science or intellectual capital, for example)
emphasizing integrative thinking that is cross-disciplinary by nature.
2) assessment in relation to competencies rather than just assignments.
3)focus on career professionals.
4) blended instructional model; cohorts work together briefly face to face, then online.
5) experiential and peer-oriented learning.
6) balance of theoretical and applied (many assignments are done within workplace environments).
The program draws on theory, frameworks and tools from many fields, including philosophy, anthropology and computer science. Course content includes (but is not restricted to) KM fundamentals, complex systems thinking, leadership, culture, change, IT tools, standards, intellectual property, intellectual capital, communities of practice and research methods.
Instructors and guest speakers have included Dottie Agger-Gupta from the Fielding Institute, Kurt Richardson from ICSE, Dave Snowden, Nancy Dixon and Melissie Rumizen.
The first persons to earn Graduate Diplomas in KM from RRU convocated last spring; the first with MAs in KM will graduate in spring 2004.