Knowledge Sharing Tutorial: Where Technology Is Advancing, Economies Challenged, and Communities Evolving, Nothing Is More Essential Than the Development of Learning Resources in School and at Work

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Knowledge Sharing

Tutorial Outline

Tutorial Overview

Part I. Knowledge Sharing Lessons

Lesson 1. Theory

Lesson 2. Method

Lesson 3. Process

Part II. Knowledge Sharing Studies

Study 1. Evolving School Learning Resources, Introducing New thoughts and New Technology

Study 2. Building for the Future, A Promising Community Learning Center Opportunity

Study 3. Continuous Workforce Improvement, A Challenging Problem for Personalized Learning

Study 4. A Knowledge Sharing Research Strategy, Directed to Changing Social and Economic Conditions

Part III. Learn-by-Doing Assignments

1. Sign Into the Tutorial Web Site

2. Define the Evolving Learning Resource Study Objectives and Critical Success Factors

3. Develop Annotated Expert Knowledge References

4. Develop the Project Deliberation Agenda

5. Share Assignment Outcomes with Colleagues for Critique

Knowledge

Sharing Tutorial

Where technology is advancing, economies challenged, and communities evolving, nothing is more essential than the development of learning resources in school and at work.

Professor John E. Harrigan

Tutorial Overview

Where technology is advancing, economies challenged, and communities evolving, nothing is more essential than the development of learning resources in school and at work.

For this responsibility, when introducing new thoughts and new technology to promising opportunities, challenging problems, and changing conditions, the tutorial lessons and studies maintain the most effectively employable view on how to lead and manage evolving learning resources—learn from people and about people.

How do we learn from people and about people? Within the knowledge sharing method we use a rigorous process of questioning to identify promising learning resource possibilities and manage their development. A knowledge acquisition process that builds the pathway to evolving learning resource achievement; using information and communication technology to make learning resource project participants one deliberative body.

Spirit of Discovery

The core of the knowledge sharing process is a spirit of discovery—where in the scholarly traditions of critical thinking and thorough analysis we confirm the things we know, find out all we can about what we need to know, and decide what strategic research we need to assure that we discover the things we are unaware of but which may dramatically affect our learning resource development outcomes.

Maintain this spirit of discovery you gain recognition that your leadership is well founded, assuring that once a learning resource project decision is made everyone understands it, able to move forward to an exceptional achievement.

To get the most out of the knowledge sharing tutorial think about the promising opportunities, challenging problems, or changing conditions in which you are engaged. How would application of the knowledge sharing theory, method, and process improve your leadership and achievements? Think about a future project: How will you lead and manage the introduction of new thoughts and new technology within your area of responsibility?

Evolving Learning Resources

To confirm the knowledge sharing tutorial as an essential learning experience, with appreciation for the thoughts provided, we take directly from a number of sources. Starting with Towards Knowledge Societies, published in 2005 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Where it is stated, a knowledge society must foster knowledge sharing.

Towards Knowledge Societies provides these basic perspectives regarding the challenge of introducing new thoughts and new technology to education’s promising opportunities, challenging problems, and changing conditions:

34353.jpg Without critical judgment and thinking, as we analyze, sort and incorporate the items considered most interesting, information will never be anything but a mass of indistinct data. And instead of controlling it, many people will realize that it is controlling them.

34102.jpg What is more, the tools that can be used to process that information are not always up to the task. In knowledge societies, everyone must be able to move easily through the flow of information submerging us, and to develop cognitive and critical thinking skills