Knowledge & Skills Transfer in Capacity Development

Education for All (EFA) is an international initiative which aims to bring the benefits of education to “every citizen in every society.Therefore, EFA can be realized when effective capacity development machineries are put in place. Capacity Development is a conceptual approach to development that focuses on understanding the obstacles that inhibit people, governments, international organizations and non-governmental organizations from realizing their developmental goals while enhancing the abilities that will allow them to achieve measurable and sustainable results. On the other hand, Knowledge Management involves people, technology, and processes in overlapping parts (Awad & Ghaziri 2007). Most of companies have built knowledge repositories, supporting such knowledge varieties as customer knowledge, product development knowledge, customer service knowledge, human resource management knowledge, and so on. Effective knowledge transfer requires processes to make the knowledge useful(Jackson & Schuler, 2000) which relies on the SECI model involving four types of knowledge conversion among people and can be combined to form process in time. Knowledge transfer can impact positively on the capacity development of individuals, society and institutions to achieve EFA. This will result into credible performance in providing high quality services and products to the stakeholders. The research reveals that proper knowledge sharing ultimately cause effective and efficient performance in any organization.Keywords: Education for All, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Creation, Knowledge Transfer, Capacity Developmen

Moving to design-based education in hotel management school: proof of success and beyond — a research journey

NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences adopted the innovative educational concept design-based education (DBE) in 2018. The Hotel Management School is one of the programmes that introduced a DBE curriculum.  It is important to explore to what extent DBE is successfully implemented and to monitor the long-term impact of DBE on students, lecturers and the industry. The purpose of the current article is to position a longitudinal research journey in which stakeholders’ personal and social experiences and perceptions are the starting point for the research focus. Using educational design research, the current research aims to contribute to the four intended impact areas: knowledge, personal development, system development and product development. Keywords: accompanying research, design thinking, educational design research, game changers, hospitality management education, innovative educatio

ADVISORY MANAGEMENT IN THE FIELD OF HIGHER EDUCATION: DIRECTIONS AND MODELS

The Object of Research: management of higher improvements and advisory services, aimed at achieving the program outputs of the educational process by creating conditions for effective advisory support for applicants and staff of educational institutions. The issue to study: the introduction of measures and methods of advisory management in the quality of higher education management. The Main Scientific Results: the conceptual bases of advisory management as a system of principles, measures and methods of advisory management are revealed. Based on the subject approach, the models of the advisory process in higher education institutions are identified and characterized, the effectiveness of combining the models of internal and external counseling to ensure the quality of higher education is proved. The Area of Practical Application of Research Outputs: higher education institutions and institutions managing higher education. Innovative technological product: on the basis of the subject approach the technologies of advisory management are revealed. The introduction of these technologies into management of higher education improvements allows to use effectively the opportunities of advisory models of knowledge and information flow to achieve program outputs of educational process. The field of application of innovative technological product: practice of formation, implementation and development of management system of educational services improvements

PENGARUH PENGETAHUAN MANAJEMEN USAHA TERHADAP PENGEMBANGAN USAHA UKM SENTRA SEPATU DI CIBADUYUT BANDUNG

ABSTRACT PITRIA MAYANG SARI. Influence of Business Management Knowledge to The Development of Shoes Centre Small And Medium Industry Business In Cibaduyut Bandung: Economic Education Studies Program. Concentration of Economic and Cooperative Education. Department of Economicsand Administration. Faculty Of Economics. State University Of Jakarta. 2015. This study aim stogain knowledge based on data and fact sare eloquent, true and trust worthy. This research was carried out for 3 months starting from the month of October 2014 to December, 2014. The method used is a survey method with simple regression approach. The sample in this study is the Primary Data Entrepreneur Shoes. Data variable Y is the Business Development Entrepreneur Shoes, and X Business Management Knowledge Entrepreneur Shoes, each of whichis obtained from the Centers Shoes Cibaduyut Bandung. estconditionsused are looking for aregression equation to obtain the equationy Y= 40,572 + 1, 403X .Results Test Requirements Analysis Lo = 0.124, while Lt=0.137 not ethat the estimated error of regression of Y on X is normally distributed, the calculation of product moment correlation coefficien to 0.638 Thus it can be concluded that there is a positive relationship between the variables X and Y. The results of this study concluded that there are significant between the Knowledge Management of Business Development, the calculation of the coefficient of determination obtain edresults 0.4067. This means that 40.67% can be explained by theBusiness Development Business Management Knowledge. Keywords: Knowledge, Business Management, Business Developmen

Development of Personal Knowledge Management System with Learning Contract and Peer Assisted Learning for Enhance Academic Work of Graduate Students

The purpose of this study was development of personal knowledgemanagement system using learning contract and peer-assisted learning to enhance academic task of graduate students. The research and development (R&D) process was divided into four phases: 1) studied, analyzed and synthesized related documents and interviewed the experts’ opinions concerning components and stepsof personnel knowledge management process, learning contract process and peerassisted learning process 2) developed a prototype of personnel knowledge management system for learning communities using learning contract and peerassisted learning 3) studied the effects of the system for six weeks and 4) proposedthe personnel knowledge management system using learning contract and peerassisted learning. The instruments used in this research consisted of document management system, blog system, rubric for academic writing, a product evaluation form, and an after action review form. The populations of this experiment were graduate students of Department of Education Technology Faculty of EducationChulalongkorn University, who enrolled the course of Research in Educational Technology and Communications. Quantitative statistics used in this study were frequency distributions, percentage, mean, standard deviation and Wilcoxon Matching Pairs Signed-Ranks Test. The research findings indicated that: 1. The developed process composed of three components: 1) people including graduatestudent teacher and peer as experienced student 2) learning contract and 3) technology for personal knowledge management. 2. The developed process composed of four steps: 1) preparation 2) process 3) presentation and 4) evaluation. 3. There were significant differences between pretest and posttest personnel knowledge skill scoring at the .05 level. The overall academic works developed by the samples were evaluated at a good level

A sensitising tool for smart home designers: Based on user-oriented product design research into the home life of older adults in the UK

This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Focusing on the needs of users, design can leverage new product development process by offering insightful knowledge of those needs. This research investigates the technology development of smart homes. Design is utilised as a product research tool to identify key insights of the home life of the older adults living in the UK, and for the purpose of informing the front-end of the new product development process. The review of the literature in the field of smart homes suggests that the developments have lagged by a technology-push approach, the lack of appropriate concepts from users’ perspectives as well as the lack of development strategy, which has consequently been reflected in consumers’ reluctance towards smart homes. As a result, this doctoral research aimed to ‘develop a user-oriented product design research tool that improves the understanding of the home life of older adults.’ To achieve the aim, this research employs qualitative methodology to develop a research process that utilises the cultural probe, semi-structured interview and video tour. Informed by ethnographic tradition, this research establishes its trustworthiness and credibility by employing a thorough process of analysis (qualitative analysis with computer-assisted software NVivo 8 and peers debriefing) and evaluation (creative workshop and evaluative interview) with practitioners from the field of product design, design management and design education. The result of the field investigation is presented as ten personas and taxonomy of nodes, which form the contribution of this research, a sensitising tool and process. This research contributes a sensitising tool - a design-led, user-inspired and participatory product design research that the offers insightful knowledge of those older adults and their relationships with their homes living in the UK. This sensitising tool is developed for the smart home designers for the purpose of generating new product ideas and challenges designers’ preconception of users and smart homes, and provokes reflections on the practices of user-centred and user-participatory design, as examined in the creative workshop. In addition, this research also contributes to the growing debate surrounding the issues relating to ethnographic user research and the use of cultural probe for the design of new smart homes

K4Footwear – Knowledge4Innovation

K4Footwear was in the high education group of projects (HE) under the general name Knowledge4Innovation and label KA2-Strategical partnership for high education (AGREEMENT NO. 2015-1-RO01-KA203-015198). The project lasted from 2015 until 2018. The aim of the project was to combine training and education for design, product development, engineering and management by connecting the three areas of the knowledge triangle: education, research, and business. The general contribution of the project is innovation in the footwear production by transferring knowledge between three European universities as well as the promotion of European excellence and high quality in higher education

K4Footwear – Knowledge4Innovation

K4Footwear was in the high education group of projects (HE) under the general name Knowledge4Innovation and label KA2-Strategical partnership for high education (AGREEMENT NO. 2015-1-RO01-KA203-015198). The project lasted from 2015 until 2018. The aim of the project was to combine training and education for design, product development, engineering and management by connecting the three areas of the knowledge triangle: education, research, and business. The general contribution of the project is innovation in the footwear production by transferring knowledge between three European universities as well as the promotion of European excellence and high quality in higher education

Impact of training and education on productivity of Academic Librarians in Nigeria: Case of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of training and education on job productivity of librarians in academic libraries in Akwa Ibom State. Two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated to direct the study. Ex-post factor research design was used for the study. There are 47 Librarians in tertiary  institutions in Akwa Ibom State and all of them were used for the study. A  questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. The data obtained was analysed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation. Each of the hypothesis was tested at .05 level of significance. The result of the analysis revealed that there is a significant relationship between training and job productivity of librarians in  academic libraries. The result further revealed that there is a significant relationshipbetween education and job productivity of librarians in academic libraries. Based on the findings of the study, it was concluded that training and education have significant impact on job productivity of librarians in academic libraries. It was recommended that regular training should be organized for academic librarians in order to get them acquainted with skills needed to function effectively in their duties. In addition, it was recommended that opportunities for education through staff development programmes should be given to academic librarians as this will enable them to update their knowledge on latest development that may arise due to rapid technological changes.Key words: knowledge management, academic libraries, job productivity, rapid technological change