Ian C. Reid , Flexible Learning Centre, University of South Australia, Holbrooks Road, Underdale, South Australia, 5032. Ian.Reid@unisa.edu.au
Online education, knowledge management, Higher Education
The business of universities is all about knowledge. Over the centuries, they have developed a knowledge culture around this business. The rapidly expanding use of technology in teaching and learning, and the transformed economic basis upon which universities are instituted, have caused universities to transform the ways in which knowledge is produced, stored, disseminated, and authorised. The use of internet technologies in particular impacts upon academic knowledge in fundamental ways, breaking traditional knowledge linkages, creating new knowledge management practices and creating new teaching and learning cultures. A strategic approach to knowledge management in universities – a shift in focus from means to ends – allows purposeful and integrated approaches. The degree to which these changes are informed by strategic reasoning is proposed as an indicator of success. This paper illustrates a case in point.
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