Presents New Knowledge Management Degree
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The Program on Social and Organizational Learning (PSOL) of the School of Public Policy is offering a new Master of Science in New Professional Studies in Knowledge Management.
The Knowledge Management masters degree, due to begin in the fall for the first time, is designed for certificate holders from the National Defense University's (NDU) Information Resources Management College (IRMC). Those who have completed the Chief Information Officer or Advanced Management certificate programs, both technical in focus, are eligible to apply.
After completing those certificates, the program's participants learn about the people side of knowledge management, according to Professor Mark Addleson, director of the PSOL program. Students are introduced to knowledge management as a way of organizing, collaborating and participating.
"People are rethinking what knowledge means and what it takes to manage an organization," said Professor Addleson. "If knowledge is supposed to move around an organization, you have to ask how you make that happen."
The 36 credit hour course is based on the idea that the ability of knowledge organizations to do their work well depends on people being willing and able to share knowledge and to create new knowledge. Yet many organizations encourage the 'hording' of knowledge and management practices discourage the sort of collaboration that is associated with knowledge sharing. These courses focus on knowledge sharing, supporting collaboration and work groups and are supported by collaborative technology and the practice of knowledge sharing using the technology.