Knowledge Management - Professional course

Program Overview

Graduates can pursue careers in knowledge management, information management, records management, librarianship, information technology, and data analysis.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This professional course in Knowledge Management:

• Is offered by the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol).
• Objectivist and constructivist perspectives of knowledge
• Distinctions between data management, information management, and knowledge management in organizations
• Understanding the roles of the records manager and knowledge specialist
• Managing Data:
• Data management principles
• Data lifecycle
• Role of the Data Analyst
• Data security
• Managing Information 1, 2, 3:
• Best practice and the legal environment
• Information audits and policies
• Digital preservation
• Knowledge Sharing 1 & 2:
• Collaborative working in the organization: people and practices
• Collaborative working in the organization: IT tools and techniques
• Communities of practice
• Nonaka and Takeuchi's knowledge spiral
• Single and double loop learning
• Role of social media
• Enabling cultures and barriers
• Knowledge Societies:
• Organizational culture and learning:
• Different categories of knowledge, e.g., tacit and explicit; propositional, practical, experiential
• Knowledge in action
• Knowing as culturally situated, artefact mediated, socially distributed, personal and provisional
• Organizational knowledge and learning: individual, social, and critical perspectives
• Developing the learning organisation:
• Senge's model including fifth discipline
• Features of learning organisation
• Research case studies of learning organisations and top UK and global companies
• Personal Knowledge Management:
• Understanding the role of the personal in the organisational setting
• Seek, sense, share model (Jarche)
• Role of social media in PKM

Course Format:

• This course involves 2 hours of direct contact time per week for one semester.
• Students are expected to complete 150 hours in total, including:
• 24 hours of lectures and face-to-face discussions
• 30 hours of online learning via VLE teaching materials and online discussion groups/contributions to wikis
• 66 hours of independent learning via essential reading
• 30 hours of assignment preparation and completion

Assessment:

• Assessment consists of:
• A short answer exam
• A professional standard report
• An investigation into a knowledge sharing tool of choice

Teaching:

• Teaching is delivered via weekly lectures, including discussions and exercises/case studies.
• Graduates can pursue careers in various fields, including:
• Knowledge Management
• Information Management
• Records Management
• Librarianship
• Data Analysis

Other:

• This course is planned to run again in 2025.
• Course dates, updated fees, and online booking forms will be published in the summer of 2024.
• Applicants can submit an online enquiry form to be notified once these details are available.
• Participants are expected to have a first degree at 2.2 level or above (or equivalent), or alternatively, have six months of relevant industrial experience.
• The University has excellent facilities, accessible to all students.

Cohort January & May 2025 UK participants £792

International participants £1,333

• Fees displayed are based on 2023/24 entry and are an indication only.