Knowledge Skills For Higher Education
Knowledge Skills For Higher Education
Education
DATA
Collection of unorganised facts or raw facts
May or may not have meaning
Include numeric data, voice, images, text,
etc.
E.g: Name of employer, quantity sold,
name of students, mark of a student etc.
Qualities of Information
1.Timely : Should provide valid information at
the right time.
2.Accurate & reliable.
3.Meaningful & relevant
4.Cost effective
5.Completeness : Should not include vague
ideas.
6.Conciseness: unnecessary matter will delay
the decision making process.
Data Processing
Data processing is the series of actions that
converts data into information.
The activities involved are:
a. Data entry and retrieval
b. Data manipulation
c. Presentation of results.
Knowledge
The
Knowledge
Kinds of Knowledge:
1.Explicit knowledge (Formal):
Knowledge that can be spoken & transmitted.
2.Tacit Knowledge (Informal):
Knowledge rooted in individual experience
which
may involve personal belief, perspective &
values.
Data
Informati knowledge
on
Processed data
It is a combination of
instincts, ideas, rules
and procedures that
guide actions and
decisions
Data is sometimes
unrelated to one
another
Make logical
connection
meaningful
May not be
appropriate for a
particular use
Content are
appropriate for a
particular use
It is used to transform
data in to information
that is useful in a
situation
Knowledge Management
Knowledge management refers to the best use
of the available knowledge in an organisation to
achieve organisation goals.
In other words, it is the collection of processes
that govern the creation, dissemination &
utilisation of knowledge.
It involves
Generating new knowledge
Identifying intellectual properties
Better use of available knowledge
Sharing technology and other resources
Ensure that the information is accurate and timely
Knowledge Management
Features of Knowledge Management
Human related
It may be Personal Knowledge Mgt (PKM) or
Enterprise Knowledge Mgt(EKM)
Directed towards organisational goals
Complementary to Total Quality Mgt(TQM)
Knowledge Management
Need for Knowledge Management
Market place are increasing competitive
Reduction in work force
Limited time for managerial action
Loss of knowledge due to early retirement
and increasing mobility of staff.
Difficulty in managing MNC and TNC
Knowledge Management
Advantages:
Improves levels of innovation
Facilitates generative learning & adaptability
Integrates a knowledge sharing culture into the
organization through incentives & rewards.
Indentifies & develops existing knowledge
bases & repositories.
Facilitates business process efficiencies for
innovation.
Internet as a Knowledge
Repository
Internet as a Knowledge
Repository
Search Engine
A search engine is a tool or a program
designed to search for information on the
WWW on the basis of specified keywords
and returns a list of the documents where
the keywords were found.
The search results are usually presented
in a list and are commonly called hits.
The information may consist of
WebPages, images, information and other
types of files
Quotation Marks
Quotation marks are used around phrases. By using
quotations marks, you are telling the computer to
only bring back pages with the terms you typed in
the exact order you typed them.
Example:
health care reform
instead of
health AND care AND reform
Truncation
Truncation means to chop off.
When you truncate you chop
off the end of the word, so
the computer can search for
multiple endings.
For example, your research
question includes the
keyword education. You can
truncate education, so that
the computer will find all of
the word ending variations.
POPULAR ACADEMIC
WEBSITES
Other Institutions
Allahabad University www.allduniv.edu
Alagappa University www.aluni.org
Kerala University
www.keralauniversity.edu
Calicut University
www.universityofcalicut.info
International Institute of Population
Sciences
www.iipsindia.org
Goa University www.goauniversity.org etc
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
RIGHTS(IPR)
Kinds of Property
Movable Property
Car, Pen, Furniture, Dress
Immovable Property
Land, Building
Intellectual Property
Literary works, inventions
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
relating to
literary, artistic and scientific works,
performances of performing artists, and
broadcasts,
inventions in all fields of human endeavour
scientific discoveries
Industrial designs
trademarks, service marks and commercial
names and designations
protection against unfair competition
and all other rights resulting from intellectual
activity in the industrial, scientific, literary or
artistic fields.
(WIPO Convention)
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
RIGHTS(IPR)
(the
Trade Secrets
New Plant Varieties
Patent:
It
Types of Patents:
Utility
Copyrights:
Trademark:
WELLKNOWN
MARKS
GE- Bulbs
43
Trade Secrets
Trade
Industrial Design
Consumer Products
47
Pharmaceutical Product
48
49
The
Period
IP Laws of India
Act
Ministry/Department
Higher Education
Information Technology
51
Copyright:
Material published on internet is copyrighted.
Author of a IT work is the 1 st owner of the copy
right.
Copy right is currently a primary source of
protection for software programs, user manuals,
websites & other IT works, provided that they
meet the requirements of the Copyright Act.
Patent and other rights
For net based products, services etc.
Patents can be issued for those computer
program that focus on the systems, processes &
methods used to achieve a solution to a specific
problem.
ACADEMIC SERVICES
Academic
services
are
the
services
introduced by the Govt or other agencies to
provide guidance, planning and assistance
to the students, teachers, research scholars
and the other academic community.
Some of such services are:
- INFLIBNET
- NICENET
- BRNET
Functions
Promote fully computerisation of libraries
Introduce standards and uniform guidelines
for the functioning of libraries in India.
To interconnect libraries, information
centres & research centres in the country
Provide cyber access to the document
collection of libraries
Ensure optimum use of information resource
through sharing, inter library loan service
etc.
NICENET
(Internet Classroom Assistant)
Features of NICENET