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- Developing Conceptual Model of Knowledge Portals in Higher Education Institutions
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Portal technologies have become more important in recent times as these information technologies provide many benefits and can influence the underlying infrastructure of the Internet. Portal technologies are personalized gateways to sets of information, applications and services. Typically, portals are a layer above many underlying systems and group these systems together to provide a single point of access for the user. Many places of higher education institutions are implementing portal technologies to provide students with a personalized gateway to teaching, learning and administration facilities in a web environment. The movement for HEI's to include portals was further enhanced by the difficulties and constraints associated with intranets. Intranets require large staff resources to maintain the currency of the content, which is not always feasible. Furthermore, the ability for an intranet to obtain external information is difficult as the original notion of the intranet was to only access information locally. However, sometimes institutions wish to access information external to the organisation and information that is not available on the institutions intranet, therefore staff would have to use another way to retrieve external information.
A major benefit of portals is that they can provide access to all, both internal and external information making this technology appealing to many institutions. Portals are viewed as support tools for institutions personnel and should not disrupt the individual's work performance or the overall strategic goals of the institutions. But rather should assist institutions functions and goals. In this paper, the author discuss the stages of the KM process in terms of people responsible for providing various knowledge sharing activities. A typical KM process has planning, design, development and evaluation stages. This paper presents a conceptual model and map which can be adopted for building a Knowledge Management platform in Higher Education Institutions. It lists the steps to implement a KM initiatives/portal and discusses the sub parts of the portal, which can cater to the needs of the stakeholders of an Academic Institution.
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1 Department of Statistics, Govt. Arts College, Salem-7, Tamil Nadu, IN
1 Department of Statistics, Govt. Arts College, Salem-7, Tamil Nadu, IN
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Data Mining and Knowledge Engineering, Vol 5, No 1 (2013), Pagination: 13-19Abstract
The ability to create, share, obtain and better manage knowledge is becoming of increasing importance for institutions. Knowledge and intellectual capital are seen as assets which can provide competitive advantage over rivals. As a result much work has gone into the building of formal channels for institutions to share knowledge internally as well as obtain quality external knowledge, to ensure that lecturers can be enriched with current practices. Technology has been a support tool, which assists the formal knowledge exchange process.Portal technologies have become more important in recent times as these information technologies provide many benefits and can influence the underlying infrastructure of the Internet. Portal technologies are personalized gateways to sets of information, applications and services. Typically, portals are a layer above many underlying systems and group these systems together to provide a single point of access for the user. Many places of higher education institutions are implementing portal technologies to provide students with a personalized gateway to teaching, learning and administration facilities in a web environment. The movement for HEI's to include portals was further enhanced by the difficulties and constraints associated with intranets. Intranets require large staff resources to maintain the currency of the content, which is not always feasible. Furthermore, the ability for an intranet to obtain external information is difficult as the original notion of the intranet was to only access information locally. However, sometimes institutions wish to access information external to the organisation and information that is not available on the institutions intranet, therefore staff would have to use another way to retrieve external information.
A major benefit of portals is that they can provide access to all, both internal and external information making this technology appealing to many institutions. Portals are viewed as support tools for institutions personnel and should not disrupt the individual's work performance or the overall strategic goals of the institutions. But rather should assist institutions functions and goals. In this paper, the author discuss the stages of the KM process in terms of people responsible for providing various knowledge sharing activities. A typical KM process has planning, design, development and evaluation stages. This paper presents a conceptual model and map which can be adopted for building a Knowledge Management platform in Higher Education Institutions. It lists the steps to implement a KM initiatives/portal and discusses the sub parts of the portal, which can cater to the needs of the stakeholders of an Academic Institution.
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Higher Education Institutions (HEI's), Knowledge Management (KM), Information Technology (IT), Portal.
- Quality Enhancement and Self Diagnostic Survey of Higher Education Institutions
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Conventionally there exists definite teaching methodologies or strategies available as on date but there is no specific learning strategy available as it is subjective when the functionality of an institution today is two folded.
1. Enabling education to heterogeneous group with varying understanding and grouping levels.
2. Providing placement to heterogeneous group with varying skills both educational and life skills.
This functionality is further complicated when there is no enough expertise available especially in emerging areas and technologies KM builds upon a human-centered approach that views institutions as complex system that move from the unique institutional contexts in which they are developed. In a University environment a student entering the university is the raw product (unskilled professional) and these students are then transformed into working professionals. In this case, the variables that affect the transformation process of input to output are, Knowledge & Skills that the students learn.
In this paper the authors discusses the student objectives and goals, and how the knowledge source providers (teachers) right from novice to expert help students in achieving there objectives. The categorization of student objectives and goals along with KM applications is also discussed. Self diagnostic survey of Vinayaka Missions University is given with therelevant SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threat) Analysis.
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1 Dept. of Mathematics, V.M.K.V Engineering College, Salem, IN
2 Dept. of ECE, Govt. College of Engineering, Salem, IN
1 Dept. of Mathematics, V.M.K.V Engineering College, Salem, IN
2 Dept. of ECE, Govt. College of Engineering, Salem, IN
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Data Mining and Knowledge Engineering, Vol 1, No 2 (2009), Pagination: 65-70Abstract
India has formally acknowledged the importance of higher education and science and technology for national development and dedicated itself to the development of scientific and technical (S&T) manpower. Over the past fifty years the country has provided full policy support and made public funds to create one of the world's largest systems of higher education. However, the Indian institutions/universities have mostly not been able to maintain high standards of education or with respect to developments in knowledge and technology. They are forced by the sudden increment in enrollments, the limited financial support from the government, and most importantly, by an overall tructure built on a great number of controls and the supply demand thinking of the past. Graduates from many middle and lower level institutions cannot find suitable employment due to limited job opportunities in the areas for which they are trained and because of a growing unsuitably between their knowledge and current practice in the fields for which they are trained. The higher scientific and technical education system needs urgent reforms and fast changes. The system needs to be student-centric and not system-centric as at present. To understand critical issues in scientific and technical (S&T) manpower development, and to identify strategies to reform the system-both at the systemic level and the institutional level. Expertise is limited and hence to be managed effectively. Only 7% go for higher education and getting guidance is a herculian task particularly in area of research in line and pace with industry developments.Conventionally there exists definite teaching methodologies or strategies available as on date but there is no specific learning strategy available as it is subjective when the functionality of an institution today is two folded.
1. Enabling education to heterogeneous group with varying understanding and grouping levels.
2. Providing placement to heterogeneous group with varying skills both educational and life skills.
This functionality is further complicated when there is no enough expertise available especially in emerging areas and technologies KM builds upon a human-centered approach that views institutions as complex system that move from the unique institutional contexts in which they are developed. In a University environment a student entering the university is the raw product (unskilled professional) and these students are then transformed into working professionals. In this case, the variables that affect the transformation process of input to output are, Knowledge & Skills that the students learn.
In this paper the authors discusses the student objectives and goals, and how the knowledge source providers (teachers) right from novice to expert help students in achieving there objectives. The categorization of student objectives and goals along with KM applications is also discussed. Self diagnostic survey of Vinayaka Missions University is given with therelevant SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threat) Analysis.