introduction: human skills, knowledge and efficiency are important factors in the success of organizations and community health centers which have a critical role in total quality management (tqm) as a management system. knowledge is necessary as a source for the organizations survival. on the other hand, in order for implementation of knowledge management, there is a need for a relatively long...

purpose – the purpose of this paper is to present a study of knowledge management understanding and usage in small and medium knowledge-intensive enterprises. design/methodology/approach – the study has taken an interpretative approach, using two knowledge-intensive south isfahan (iran) companies as case studies, both of which are characterized by the need to process and use knowledge on a dail...

The purpose of this paper is twofold. The first is to present the structure of a course entitled ‘Strategic Knowledge Management’ taught at the MBA level at the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Canada. The second goal is to report on the survey of 43 course alumni and offer insights for other instructors interested in the development of the KM-related curriculum. The survey res...

This article reiterates the view that belief and knowledge can be conflated based on having a common form. The pedagogical advantage is that teachers are less likely to close off student discussions needed to help students develop an understanding of the characteristics and limitations of scientific knowledge. It is also less likely that a teacher’s non-scientific presuppositions will be masked...

Our article presents a pedagogical scenarios-based web application that allows the automatic generation and development of pedagogical websites. These pedagogical scenarios are represented in the IMS Learning Design standard. Our application is a web portal helping teachers to dynamically generate web course structures, to edit pedagogical content and to administrate their courses. In this pape...

Successful eLearning is predicated on the application of pedagogies appropriate to online education that respond to the capabilities and needs of the learners. Typically, designing and assembling personalized Learning Objects that respond to the pedagogical needs of a variety of different learners is an expensive and time-consuming process requiring both domain and educational expertise. Educat...

This paper discusses some of the findings from a recent longitudinal study that examined how 35 beginning teachers used information and communications technologies (ICT) in the first three years of their teaching. The research, set in Western Australia, adopted a mixed method approach to help understand the role that ICT played in the evolving pedagogical practices of the teachers involved. The...

The SEPIA system allows creating assistance systems that meet technical assistance needs. In this paper, we aim at the exploitation of SEPIA in the educational context by confronting it to pedagogical assistance needs. This exploitation shows the limitations in the SEPIA system: complex description of rules by pedagogical designers, lack of domain knowledge. Therefore, we present our patterns t...

introduction: knowledge is one of the most important assets of any organization and the importance of knowledge management in the information age is considered more than ever. experts believe that organizational success or failures are associated with knowledge management. both implicit and explicit knowledge management are so important in disaster management. the aim of this study is to determ...

the critical success factors (csfs) of knowledge management (km) systems are considered as areas that must be given the required attention for the successful implementation of knowledge management. in this respect and to reduce the failure risk of knowledge management projects, the current paper aims to arrive at a conceptual model by identifying and prioritizing factors for guiding research in...