Potential students should find this informational meeting helpful in learning more about getting started in KM, our program, and detailed descriptions of the Foundational Principles of Knowledge Management and Economics of Information courses. Live viewers were able to ask questions of the presenters through their computers online.

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.

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.

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