Knowledge Collaboration in Higher Educational Institutions in India: Charting a Knowledge Management Solution
Knowledge management (KM) is an essential consideration in higher educational institutions (HEIs) to ensure that knowledge flows efficiently between the people and processes. A crucial aspect of KM in HEIs that has not been addressed adequately is the unstructured nature of knowledge management and varying degrees of conformance to KM mechanisms in the functional domains. The paper aims to propose a knowledge management framework for HEIs and evaluate the institutions for KM mechanisms in order to reiterate on the urgent need for knowledge management support in higher education.
The evaluation of the framework indicated the nascent nature of knowledge management in higher educational institutions in India. The evaluation also indicated that KM in HEIs is highly unstructured and occurs in disparate activities of the institutions and identified the potential domains for improvement based on the K-ASD framework.
The practical implications of KM initiatives in HEIs include the enhancement in the overall effectiveness and efficiency. A KM system should be integrated into the institutions processes and work environment.
Keywords: Knowledge management, higher education, knowledge creation, knowledge encapsulation, knowledge structuring, knowledge, knowledge dissemination
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Mamta Bhusry
Mamta Bhusry is a PhD Research Scholar in the field of Knowledge Management in Technical Education She has a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering and M.Tech in Information Technology. She has a total of 19 years of academic and the industrial experience. She is presently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science engineering at Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College, Ghaziabad, India. She has published papers on knowledge management and has authored a book on E-Commerce. She has guided various B.Tech and M.Tech level projects.
Jayanti Ranjan
Dr. Jayanthi Ranjan is a PhD from Jamia Millia Islamia Central University, India in the field of data mining and has 16 years of teaching experience. She is presently working as Professor, Information Systems Management at Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, India. She has published various papers on data clustering, data mining, database security, business intelligence, educational technologies that appeared in Emerald Publishers, Inderscience Publishers, World scientific Publishers, Asian Network for Scientific Information and other refereed journals. She is serving on the editorial board for the international journal – Information Technology Journal, Inter disciplinary Journal of Information Knowledge and Management, UK, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology. She is also the Chairman, International Relations, IMT Ghaziabad.
Mamta Bhusry
Mamta Bhusry is a PhD Research Scholar in the field of Knowledge Management in Technical Education She has a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering and M.Tech in Information Technology. She has a total of 19 years of academic and the industrial experience. She is presently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science engineering at Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College, Ghaziabad, India. She has published papers on knowledge management and has authored a book on E-Commerce. She has guided various B.Tech and M.Tech level projects.
Jayanti Ranjan
Dr. Jayanthi Ranjan is a PhD from Jamia Millia Islamia Central University, India in the field of data mining and has 16 years of teaching experience. She is presently working as Professor, Information Systems Management at Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, India. She has published various papers on data clustering, data mining, database security, business intelligence, educational technologies that appeared in Emerald Publishers, Inderscience Publishers, World scientific Publishers, Asian Network for Scientific Information and other refereed journals. She is serving on the editorial board for the international journal – Information Technology Journal, Inter disciplinary Journal of Information Knowledge and Management, UK, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology. She is also the Chairman, International Relations, IMT Ghaziabad.
