Various lectures, presentations, seminars and action learning and teaching techniques are used to enrich participants’ learning experiences. Specifically, techniques are used to support participants in mastering the type of individual and team skills required in organisations for developing knowledge management strategies:
· The class is set up to behave as an organisation, such that participants contribute to the organisation’s goals to help achieve their own.
· The module’s syllabus is divided into themes that are published at the beginning of the term. Each week we will be working on one or more themes with different research questions. The themes may be adjusted to accommodate changes in the organisation as it learns.
· Participants will form groups as communities of practice and are required to research and discuss each theme before its scheduled session.
· The module team will guide participants relate their work on a theme to the theory covered and to real-life case studies.
· Participants are required to keep an online blog as a reflective journal and add their own observations/reflections which they can draw upon for module assignments.
· Participants are required to reflect on each theme (e.g. using the published literature and case studies) and present their views on the theme, supported by evidence and argument, to their colleagues.
· Participants must also contribute to their colleagues in the organisation by commenting on each other’s blogs.
Sessions will be conducted in a workshop-like environment in equipped with various presentation tools. The sessions will be highly interactive and participants are strongly advised not to miss any.
NB Participants must attend the first session prepared to talk about their experience of organisations and with a note of their contact details. During the first session groups will be formed for the module. Participants are advised to spend a few hours before the first session reading about the notions of ‘organisation’ (also spelt with a ‘z’) and ‘strategy’.
