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HUMAN LEARNING -
NATURAL DRIFT TO LOOSE COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE
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MAJOR THEMES : KM
Definition, Information Overload, INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT I'm speaking with Cec Peterson
of the University of Southern Queensland and asking him questions
of how he perceives knowledge management at the moment and what
might be some of the issues that we need to be looking at. What
do you understand about knowledge management up to this point
? In my own mind I have differentiated it... and I guess one of the difficulties as one of the keynote speakers said this morning is that it is a very ambiguous term. To me it is fairly clear. The IT people have a definite view - its about the collection, storage and retrieval of information and the 'knowledge' that is generously used on it. In terms of the university structure, I don't think this issue of knowing is a new term. I guess what's intimidating to a lot of people is the fact that it needs to be managed and thereupon it starts to intrude on individual liberty and freedom and academic privilege. And all those areas... So... I am interested in knowledge management from the perspective of ... and I don't like using the term 'academic' as I don't see myself in that area... that, how do I actually manage knowledge so that it has got in a universal sense a corporate outcome, how it's by.... My personal view of knowledge is that there is no shortage. The technology that we have is bewildering !... The access that we have....what we have access to... whether it is the Vatican library or the latest medical development or whatever. So there is no shortage. What does concern me is the depth of understanding, and from an academic perspective, I guess, what I am endeavoring to do in my own disciplinary area is to funnel it down so that we are finding ways of reducing the breadth so that we can actually get the depth out of it. ....I guess that's like trying to raise the Titanic with a bucket !... It really does. The speed of which and the access we get... it is one of the I guess intriguing side and where I am searching for my answers. I don't know if there are any, but certainly how to reduce the bucket of it, turning knowledge into understanding. The other (concern) is being generous with your knowledge. You see in academic areas a lot of people being incredibly selfish with it. It's about vulgar credentialism, CV massaging, superficiality... but how do we actually share the knowledge ? For me, anything that I do, any of
the research I do as part of my own knowledge enhancement, has
got to be translated back into my teaching. And, I would like,
one, get some value out of it, but more importantly, if they can
add some value to it for themselves. If I have done that, my role
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