Introduction

 

         Institutions of Higher Education are the knowledge centers for the society at large. They pursue key initiatives for developing future generations of scholars and practitioners. The teaching – learning is a process of Knowledge sharing among the students. The Knowledge Management (KM) principles, strategies, models, tools, and techniques have proven themselves in business and industry. More recently KM has emerged as an essential enabler for the successful pursuit of scholarly activities in higher education. As such, this handbook of research is focused on research pertaining to the adoption of KM principles, strategies, models, tools, and techniques in higher education.
The purpose of this book is to present an opportunity for both academic and practitioner scholars to publish original, unpublished research articles related to knowledge management in higher education. An academic institution has multiple stakeholders -- faculty, students, management, staff, regulatory bodies, and others. The primary activities at such institutions -- research, teaching, learning, and service -- are the result of multiple, interconnected processes that involve these stakeholders such as those related to scholarly research and teaching, student enrollment, retention, graduation, and placement, institution and program administration, fundraising, grants processing, facilities management, alumni relationship management, and so on. Knowledge management has significant contributions to make in capturing, storing, processing, and disseminating knowledge between and across these stakeholder entities and their processes to better support these inter-related processes and stakeholder activities. Given the impetus provided by the United Nations - Global Knowledge Economy Policy, countries worldwide are actively pursuing the use of Knowledge Management in all facets of economic development. The importance of KM research and application in academia is a critical element of this multifaceted endeavor.

 

Objective

 

         This book seeks to position itself as a compendium of cutting-edge research on the use of Knowledge Management in Higher Education. It aims to provide a comprehensive forum for publishing original, theoretical and application-oriented research within the Higher Education application domain. Its target audience includes KM researchers and practitioners and, in particular, the different stakeholders at academic institutions of higher learning. We hope that this compendium will prove to be a handy reference for students, researchers, and practitioners of KM, particularly those with interests in Higher Education.

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Target Audience

 

           The audience of this book will include researchers and practitioners working in the fields of Higher Education and Knowledge Management. The book can also be used as a handbook for academics, analysts, developer, students, technologists, education consultants, and enthusiastic readers seeking to learn, improve and/or expand their academic, general/technical knowledge in higher education related to KM tools and techniques, models, processes, systems, etc.