Online Open House on Knowledge Management Online Options in IAKM

Students have a few online options in learning Knowledge Management at Kent State University: individual classes, a 6-class certificate program, or a 14-class master's program.

Online Open House
Online KM Masters Degree and Certificate Program
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Access the completed presentation
(No login or registration required. It works best in Internet Explorer and runs approximately 60 minutes.)

The presentation includes options for students to ask questions live. Any questions received during the presentation should be addressed at the end of the session.

The presentation has two segments:

Segment One
Dr. Thomas J. Froehlich, Director of the Masters Program in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management, will provide an overview of the program and its online options in the area of Knowledge Management. Access his Froehlich program presentation 7.9.08.

Segment Two
Dr. Denise Bedford will speak about her background, experience and expertise in knowledge management and will provide an overview of the two courses she will be teaching for the IAKM program in the fall, Foundational Principles of Knowledge Management and the Economics of Information.

Viewers may skip to this part of the presentation if they are most interested in hearing Dr. Bedford discuss the courses she teaches for IAKM and her view of KM. Simply begin the presentation and access the "slide list" on the right side of the screen. Go to page 4 of the slides and begin at "Knowledge Management - Basic Issues" and press "Play from this slide" located at the bottom of that slide.

Dr. Bedford holds a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of California, Berkeley. She has been the Senior Information Officer at the World Bank since 1997, where she is responsible for management of the World Bank’s core metadata strategy, including content type strategy and the various ontologies that support Bank metadata.

She has taught courses at the University of Tennessee, Georgetown University, Catholic University of America, University of Richmond, and George Mason University

People interested in taking courses, the certificate or the master's should contact iakm@kent.edu with questions about how to get started if they did not get their questions answered during the session.

View the previous open house presented March 26, 2008 featuring course instructor of Documents, Records and Content Management, Len Asprey
(approx. 45 minutes)
Open House from March 6, 2008
The presentation is best seen using Internet Explorer and was interactive and allowed anyone to post questions during the session.

Dr. Froehlich's presentation is available in PowerPoint: Online KM Programs at Kent State.

Leonard Asprey, one of the international instructors of the program, will provide an overview of Knowledge Management and the content of his course in Document, Records and Content Management for the Enterprise. Mr. Asprey heads a consulting agency, Professional Information Management and Technology Consulting, with world-wide clients. He coauthored (with Michael Middleton) a major text in the field: Integrative Document & Content Management: Strategies for Exploiting Enterprise Knowledge, which won the "Mander Jones Award" in 2003. He was the founding Chair of the Institute for Information Management (IIM) and is a member of AIIM International.