[Year 12 IPM] Knowledge Management

[Stephen Loosley]

Hi there,

Remember the long list discussions regarding the ipm name change? 

'Knowledge Management' does seem the info-tech 'mind-set' Victoria
needs and The University of Melbourne would certainly seem to agree. 

One would urge that VCAA and VITTA support this initiative, long term.

www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/futurestudents/courses/postgraduate/programs/knowlman/

In a world first, the University of Melbourne has drawn on the expertise
of three leading faculties – Education, Economics and Commerce, and
Science – to teach the Master of Knowledge Management (MKM), which
tonight sees its first cohort of students walk across the graduation stage.

As one of the ten masters recipients, Alice Freyne, wasted no time applying her
newly acquired knowledge management skills to her role as CEO of a research
based company.  The company specialises in the application of animation to
explain the details of surgical procedures to patients. 

“This research project involves surgeons communicating their needs to animators
and IT professionals. These were like-minded people in many ways, but all coming
from different perspectives and talking different ‘languages’. It is my role to bring the
project together and encourage ongoing communication. Undertaking the masters
also taught me that when you bring in a new system, regardless of the context –
health, IT, corporate – new ways of learning are needed. It helped me understand
why people may resist new systems.”

A slippery concept to define, knowledge management has become a catchphrase
of  corporate culture.  Professor Gabriele Lakomski, the Course Director of the KM
program in the Faculty of Education, explains, 

“Knowledge management is a relatively new term for an old challenge. KM supports
knowledge creation, sharing, storage and retrieval, and the application of knowledge
to progress towards organisational, community or personal goals.”

The University of Melbourne’s Dean of Education, Professor Field Rickards explains
the significance of the Masters program and tonight’s ceremony, “The graduation of
these ten students from this one-of-a-kind degree represents a great success in the
Faculty and University’s history. Adopting a multidisciplinary view of postgraduate
education will be the way of the future. This is not just an Education Faculty story, but
really exemplifies the innovative programs that the University is offering, and the
collaboration between faculties.”

Further information about the Master of Knowledge Management can be found at:
www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/futurestudents/courses/postgraduate/programs/knowlman/
or by contacting Professor Gabriele Lakomski lakomski at unimelb.edu.au

Media : http://www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/news/media/releases.html
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Regards all ..
Stephen Loosley
Victoria, Australia.