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The Information & Knowledge Management School at London Metropolitan
University can support you in your continuing professional development. We
deliver a range of modules at post-graduate level which are very suitable
for continuing professional development and we can offer places to both
practitioners and information and knowledge managers on these courses.
As an associate student you will have access to our extensive Library
Collection of texts in Information and Knowledge Management, our Virtual
Learning Environment tool (Webct), which offers links to relevant resources
and our Windows XP enabled computer laboratories with appropriate software
packages to support your learning and your professional development. Should
you successfully complete the assessment you would also gain 20 credits at
post-graduate level.
Skills Enhancing Courses
Choosing to do a short course over a 10-11 week period either one
afternoon/morning per week has many advantages over doing a one or two day
course in that you have a period to reflect and learn at a deeper level as
the weeks go by. In addition you have the chance to increase your network
of professional contacts as week by week you build up strong links with
other participants. The cost of each of these is £345 which represents
excellent value for money. The morning courses run from 10.00-13.00 and the
afternoon courses run from 14.00-17.00 in Ladbroke House, 62-66 Highbury
Grove, N5.
Digital Libraries – Monday afternoons from 7th Feb to 2nd May (excluding
bank holidays) This course examines the role of digital resources within
traditional, hybrid and digital libraries. Issues related to the
exploitation and management of e-journals, e-books, digitisation projects
and digital preservation, electronic document management and content
management systems, and portals are fully covered.
Tutor: Luke Tredinnick
Information Architecture: Monday afternoons from 7th Feb to 2nd May
(excluding bank holidays) This course focuses upon the design of systems to
manage an organisation's digital information resources. It examines how
information resources may be organised and presented to improve the
efficiency of search and retrieval. The syllabus covers the theory and
practice of organising information: classification/taxonomy, indexing and
ontologies, and metadata.
Tutor: Dr. Sue Batley
Managing an Intranet/Extranet Project. Friday Mornings from 11th Feb to 6th
May
Participants will develop web design skills, introducing Dreamweaver as a
web authoring tool, and allows participants to create their own web pages
and web sites. Alongside the practical skills, the management issues
related to the introduction of intranet and extranet projects, including
project and team management, and usability issues are fully explored.
Tutor: Luke Tredinnick
Indexing for Information Retrieval: Friday Mornings from 11th Feb to 6th
May This course contains a strong practical element, designed to develop
sound skills in cataloguing, classification and indexing. Workshops focus
on classifying with Dewey Decimal Classification 22nd edition, and the
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules and MARC21 formats. Underpinning this
course is the theoretical framework of modern classification, indexing and
bibliographic record construction.
Tutor: Dr. Sue Batley
Information Services to Minority Communities: Friday Afternoons from 11th
Feb to 6th May This course fully explores issues of diversity and cultural
pluralism in the context of provision of information and library services.
In particular, community profiling, barriers to information, meeting the
information needs of communities, information for social inclusion and the
role of IT in empowering minority communities will be fully explored.
Tutor: Shiraz Durrani
To apply contact our Admissions Office and / or download an application
form from our website www.londonmet.ac.uk stating you wish to be an
Associate Student.
Executive / Management Courses
Modules from our M.Sc Information and Knowledge Management programme are
highly suitable for existing managers with an Information/Knowledge brief
in their job. Attendance is in two blocks of two days each, from 9.30-5.30
at our Moorgate Campus. There is a 4 week break between the two sessions
which will afford participants the opportunity to reflect on their work
practices and apply what has been learned to the benefit of their
respective organisations. The cost for the 4 days tuition is £665, which
offers excellent value for money. Participants on these courses receive a
study pack of useful learning materials.
Knowledge, Culture and Change
Course Dates: 11th - 12th February 2005 and 18th - 19th March 2005.
Successful KM implementation requires an understanding of organisational
culture issues, of core strategies to foster a learning organisation and of
key change management approaches, which will encourage and enable the
embedding of knowledge sharing behaviour in the organisation. This course
covers the theory and the practice of key management practices required to
create the right conditions for a knowledge sharing culture to thrive. This
will entail looking at best demonstrated practices in a number of areas,
including employee incentive schemes and the identification of key target
areas where knowledge sharing will offer the optimum organisational impact.
Participants are actively encouraged to draw on their own professional
practice throughout in order to facilitate an effective move towards
knowledge sharing behaviour within their own organisations.
Tutor: Catherine Kelly
Knowledge Applications & Technologies.
Course Dates 9th - 10th February 2005 and 16th - 17th March 2005.
Systems analysis and project management are two key activities in
implementing technology and these topics underpin this program. The
important issue of identifying tangible and intangible benefits is
considered, alongside a range of technologies, from enterprise search
solutions, to intranets and file sharing applications. Overall, the program
focuses on the role of technology within organisations from a Knowledge
Management perspective and explores their role in supporting Knowledge
Management solutions. Participants are actively encouraged to draw on their
own organisation’s practice throughout in order that they can apply what
has been learned to the benefit of their respective organisations..
Tutor: Luke Tredinnick.
To apply contact our Admissions Office and / or download an application
form from our website www.londonmet.ac.uk stating you wish to be an
Associate Student.
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