Education and Training

Education and Training Links

• Mind Tools A resource of thinking skills, shareware and practical psychology helping you to think your way to an excellent life.
  
• Brian Thwaits, Braintrainer Brian Thwaits is one of only a few 'brain trainers' in North America. His presentations are unique and highly entertaining, but are packed with practical information as well. They've been delivered to thousands of individuals in organizations in both the private public sectors.
  
• Open University Business School This module can be taken as part of an MBA or individually. Managing knowledge takes a broad view of the subject, covering communications, sense making, information management, intellectual capital measurement, intellectual property, intangible assets, learning, knowledge creation and innovation, human resources for innovation and building knowledge management capability.
  
• University of Birmingham MSc Knowledge Organisation and Management. This course is aimed specifically at information professionals who want to enhance their skills and knowledge in the area of Knowledge Management and who want to know more about the rapidly growing area of knowledge management from an information perspective.
  
• Seventh Dimension Thinking Consultant. Curriculum for developing systems thinking and modeling. Consultations, training sessions, publications. Manual accompanied by research findings.
  
• Knowledge Management Department of Information Studies, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
  
• Knowledge Technology Centre The University of Nottingham Knowledge Technology Centre develops methods and tools for knowledge management and provides short courses for industrial partners. Our particular strengths are in knowledge capture (making tacit knowledge explicit), knowledge organisation (models and ontologies to assist re-use and retrieval) and knowledge publishing (intranets for knowledge dissemination).
  
• Competitive Intelligence at Acadia University Home page of Competitive Intelligence Program of Acadia University and of Dr. Conor Vibert. Developing online analysts for the knowledge economy.
  
• Ladedade Land Devoted to personal and business development from the perspective that acquisition of knowledge increases the development of both. For those who take their work seriously, while taking themselves lightly. This site is not for the faint of heart!
  
• Cranfield University This Distance learning MSc/Postgraduate Diploma designed for students in full-time employment and takes 4 years to complete. Modules include Knowledge Management, Organisational Behaviour and Knowledge Systems
  
• South Bank University South Bank University offer a KM Systems course at Post Graduate level that explores KM software/technologies, KM strategies and methodology.
  
• Post Graduate Program in Knowledge Management Two semesters. Donau University, Krems, Austria.
  
• Knowledge Science Institute (KSI) The KSI was founded at the University of Calgary in 1985 with a mandate to study all aspects of the knowledge economy. It has a wide range of multi-disciplinary theoretical and practical research activities.
  
• Princeton Center Rapid courseware development capabilities that revolutionize the process of transforming information from documentation directly to training and electronic reference.