Knowledge management in education: defining the landscape

In December 2002, a group of 40 professionals from K-12 schools, colleges, universities, and business participated in the first professional gathering in the US focusing on the role of knowledge management in education. [Knowledge management, at the most basic level, can be described as a set of practices that facilitates improved use and sharing of data and information for decision-making]. For two days, participants discussed the opportunities and challenges faced by those working to improve the use and sharing of information in education through practices that have come to be known as knowledge management. There was widespread consensus about the overall prospects that knowledge management holds for educators: more effective decision-making about work processes, program improvement, and, most importantly, student outcomes. This monograph, drawn from the dynamic discussions at the Knowledge Management in Education Summit, seeks to build from the insights of presenters and participants, in an effort to share with a wider community the most recent understandings about knowledge management in education today. [It provides information, examples and descriptions of knowledge management practices].

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