CHAPTER 1
Knowledge SharingTutorial 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 PromisingCommunity Learning Center Opportunity
Study 3. Continuous Workforce Improvement, AChallenging 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 StudyObjectives and Critical Success Factors
3. Develop Annotated Expert Knowledge References
4. Develop the Project Deliberation Agenda
5. Share Assignment Outcomes with Colleagues forCritique
Tutorial Overview
Where technology is advancing, economies challenged, andcommunities evolving, nothing is more essential than thedevelopment of learning resources in school and at work.
For this responsibility, when introducing new thoughtsand new technology to promising opportunities, challengingproblems, and changing conditions, the tutorial lessons andstudies maintain the most effectively employable view on how tolead and manage evolving learning resources—learn from peopleand about people.
How do we learn from people and about people? Withinthe knowledge sharing method we use a rigorous process ofquestioning to identify promising learning resource possibilitiesand manage their development. A knowledge acquisitionprocess that builds the pathway to evolving learning resourceachievement; using information and communication technologyto make learning resource project participants one deliberativebody.
Spirit of Discovery
The core of the knowledge sharing process is a spirit ofdiscovery—where in the scholarly traditions of critical thinkingand thorough analysis we confirm the things we know, find out allwe can about what we need to know, and decide what strategicresearch we need to assure that we discover the things weare unaware of but which may dramatically affect our learningresource development outcomes.
Maintain this spirit of discovery you gain recognition thatyour leadership is well founded, assuring that once a learningresource project decision is made everyone understands it, ableto move forward to an exceptional achievement.
To get the most out of the knowledge sharing tutorial think aboutthe promising opportunities, challenging problems, or changingconditions in which you are engaged. How would application ofthe knowledge sharing theory, method, and process improveyour leadership and achievements? Think about a future project:How will you lead and manage the introduction of new thoughtsand new technology within your area of responsibility?
Evolving Learning Resources
To confirm the knowledge sharing tutorial as an essentiallearning experience, with appreciation for the thoughts provided,we take directly from a number of sources. Starting with TowardsKnowledge Societies, published in 2005 by the United NationsEducational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Where it isstated, "a knowledge society must foster knowledge sharing."
Towards Knowledge Societies provides these basic perspectivesregarding the challenge of introducing new thoughts and newtechnology to education's promising opportunities, challengingproblems, and changing conditions:
* Without critical judgment and thinking, as we analyze, sortaand incorporate the items considered most interesting,information will never be anything but a mass of indistinctdata. And instead of controlling it, many people will realizethat it is controlling them.
* What is more, the tools that can be used to "process"that information are not always up to the task. In knowledgesocieties, everyone must be able to move easily through theflow of information submerging us, and to develop cognitiveand critical thinking skills to distinguish between "useful"and "useless" information.
* We find support for the knowledge sharing tutorialemphasis on learning from people and about people,where Towards Knowledge Societies provides a knowledgesharing cultural view regarding the extent to which theintroduction of new thoughts and new technology isaccelerating change. A major international challenge whenyou consider every society has its own knowledge assets.It is therefore necessary to work towards connecting theforms of knowledge that societies already possess andthe new forms of development, acquisition, and spreadof knowledge.
The Asian Development Bank Report, Enhancing KnowledgeManagement Under Strategy 2020: Plan of Action for 2009–2011, confirmsthe knowledge sharing tutorial as an essential learning experiencewhen you consider these thoughts: Despite worldwide attention tostrategic planning, the notion of strategic practice is surprisinglynew. To draw a strategy is relatively easy but to execute it isdifficult—strategy is both a macro and a micro phenomenon thatdepends on synchronization. One should systematically review,evaluate, prioritize, sequence, manage, redirect, and if necessaryeven cancel strategic initiatives.
Confirming these views, the Federal Ministry of Education andResearch, Germany, emphasizes that international competition forfuture opportunities has essentially become a competition for thequality of education systems, where education reform requires anational effort of all stakeholders and a broad debate in societyacross ideological barriers. There is a growing awareness that one size-fits-allapproaches to school knowledge and organizationare ill adapted both to individuals' needs and to the knowledgesociety at large. To move beyond uniform, mass provision canbe described as the "personalization" of education.
The U.S. Department of Education's 2010 plan, TransformingAmerican Education: Learning Powered by Technology, similarly calls fora revolutionary transformation rather than evolutionary tinkeringwhen developing community learning resource development. Theplan urges learning resources that increase student engagementand motivation, using technology to transform teaching byushering in a new model of connected teaching. This model linksteachers to their students and to knowledge content, resources,and systems to help them improve the learning experience.
The following introduce the three parts of the knowledgesharing tutorial.
Part I. Knowledge Sharing Lessons
The knowledge sharing lessons establish questions asprimary facts when introducing new thoughts and new technologyto evolving learning resources. Questions have always guidedthe search for knowledge, particularly questioning to discoverthe exceptions that confound what has been accepted as true.Further, questions endure; it is the answers that vary.
The knowledge sharing lessons emphasize knowledgeacquisition and essential information and communicationtechnology (ICT) advantages, answering the followingquestions:
* How do we establish a means for individuals and groupsto share experience and insights within evolving learningresources?
* How do we accumulate ideas and sharpen perceptionsand at the same time assure rigorous analysis?
* How do we make knowledge...
