personal knowledge management paul kawachi frsa [email protected]
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Personal Knowledge Management :
. . . some ideas to help you
to work more intelligently –
to save time and effort, to achieve more
to work more easily not harder
1 - what is Knowledge Management2 - Personal Knowledge Management3 - why you need a System
1 - some ideas in theory2 - some ideas in practice3 - quality assurance4 - keep back-up copies
overview
2 - Personal Knowledge Management :
involveshigher-order thinking skills - judging, synthesizingand physical things - files, bookshelves
higher-order thinking skills :
- critically reflecting on own needs- searching and evaluating skills- judging quality and suitability to purpose- collating and writing- reading and knowledge creation- these iteratively in cycles
higher-order thinking skills :
- critically reflecting on own needs metacog- searching and evaluating skills manage- judging quality and suitability to purpose environ- collating and writing cog- reading and knowledge creation cog- these iteratively in cycles affect
and physical things :
- computer and fast internet access- libraries and e-libraries- desk, paper and pen- files off-line and on-line- isolated files as back-up- these iteratively in cycles
and physical things :
- computer and fast internet access- libraries and e-libraries- desk, paper and pen- files off-line and on-line- isolated files as back-up- all environ these iteratively in cycles
A personal knowledge management system is mostly involved with theMANAGEMENT DOMAIN OF LEARNING :
coping with massive amounts of information to obtain appropriate material in a suitable quality for learning, and time management
3 - why you need a System :
Aside from the need to organize yourselfthe human brain is unable to cope without some external storage
Cooperation
Collaboration
3 - why you need a System :
Cooperation
sharing experiences leads to massive amounts of data
The human-human bandwidth is very narrowleading to over-loading and de-contextualization= richness is lost without a good storage system
3 - why you need a System :
Collaboration
Involves retrieving richness on demandefficiently in time and across space
Both cooperation and collaboration are needed for learning and self-development
4 - some ideas in theory :
Sustainable development
stands on three pillars
Economic Ecological Social
social
economic ecological
sustainabledevelopment
Economic Dimension involves costing, grades or some measureable quantity
Ecological Dimension involves quality, description as in case study
Social Dimension involves human resource individual and community capacity building
Social Dimension :
of human resource capacity buildingis illustrated using Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
self-development
esteem status
affiliation love
security shelter
hunger thirst warmth
increasing
socialdevelopment
social
economic ecological
sustainabledevelopment
social
at the top level there is freedom, and altruism to help others
self-development
self-development
esteem status
affiliation love
security shelter
hunger thirst warmth
if there is loss in any lower level,
then attention is required only temporarily
self-development
esteem status
affiliation love
security shelter
hunger thirst warmth
any loss in a lower levelcauses both
fear & hope
self-development
esteem status
affiliation love
security shelter
hunger thirst warmth
any loss in a lower levelcauses both
fear & hope
Attention to lower needis only temporary
The current Global Financial Crisis :
Research shows that any disappearance inlower needs e.g. for security or shelteris only temporary, that development of thehighest level continues fairly uninterruptedly
. . . while fear is a spontaneous response,individual and social development is sustained
5 - some ideas in practice :
Use a hard-disk back-upBack-up every hourRe-look and re-save old back-upsDevelop a filing systemMaintain a libraryJoin key lists and discussion groupsWrite, speak and publish . . .
6 - quality assurance :
‘grey’ literature after 1991
distributed cost of ascertaining quality
more ‘free’ data - > higher costs
Good quality research is defined in terms of :
- Originality
- Significance
- Rigour : including the reliabilities the validities and utility utility includes transportability and transmissibility to other works, contexts
Originality :
- Pre-existing problems tackled in new way, or pre-existing research analysed in new way, providing new and salient conceptualisation
- New or complex problem or debate engaged
- New design or method is developed
Significance judged according to :
- Basic Research ( theory )
- Strategic Research ( technique )
- Applied Research (case study )
Significant, if :
- provides new social science knowledge
- tackles important practical current problem
- and provides trustworthy results
Significance evaluated by :
- its effect on the development of the field
- its examining contributions to existing debates
- its impact on policy and practice
Significance in terms of results Results :
- may be empirical, analytical, or theoretical
- provide new challenging conceptualisations
- must provide evidence to readers / others
Significance in value for use Usefulness :
- may be immediate or in the short term
- expect impact over the long term
( usefulness may be influence on readers / others )
Rigour :
- robustness, and systematic approach
- reliabilities, validities, and utility
- integrity and ethical issues
ethics : human conduct right or wrong based on reasoningcf morals : that based on social custom
Reliability :
- triangulation helps ( 3+ sources of data ) eg from own eyes, from teachers, & from students
- triangulation helps ( multiple methods ) required in each single research aim
Validity :
- is measuring what you want to measure be explicit & take steps to assure achievement
- the extent to which you do research into what you said you were researching into MacNamara Fallacy making the measurable important instead of the important measurable
Construct Validity is overarching :
- content validity ext
- face validity int ext
- ecological validity int
Transportability :
- to another context carrying over the validities ( =generalising )
Transmissibility :
- whether this is vaild ;-)
Sampling and so on :
- extreme, typical, expert, opportunity, full
- data viewing
- Factor Analysis vs Simplex / Multiplex
- Path Analysis, e-Portfolios
Poor quality research design : Examples
- Course evaluation by ( sleeping ) students- Oxygen-levels in amber- 70% yes = ? 40% yes- Responses ; good / very good only- EASI vs ASI vs Mini-ASI- Target language and native languages
Poor quality research design :
Confounding effects and fallacies : Interviewer Effect : politics / to please Halo Effect : power / respect Hawthorne Effect : honoured MacNamara Fallacy : obs-important
Use three groups to eliminate each effect
Non-normal Distributions :“ the average age of the students …” mean +/-sd
25 35 45
years old
%
25
25 35 45
years old
%
No Significant Difference Debate DE (e-learning) vs CE (face2face)
New Doshisha Univ results 2007Good e-students showed no difference
Poor e-students repeated, reviewed parts, etcto raise their grades and the e-averageSo there is now a significant difference DE > CE
Kawachi 2002 : Wave Analysis
Kawachi 2002 : Wave Analysis
Originally in time slots to find the trend indicating the ‘responses’ of the non-responders
Adapted for repeat cohorts to increase confidenceInternal & external reliabilitiesconstruct validitiescontent validity and all face validities
Kawachi 2002 : Wave Analysis
Students1 2 3 4 5 6
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What is ‘learning’ ?
Jiko gaku shuHatten saseru monoTest benkyoTaisetsuShushoku no tameKyoumi ga nakereba ikenaiChishiki wo eru
items from open-essay responses are recorded
Approaches to Studying Inventory - ASI
‘Honne’Not much - Very much 1 2 3 4 5 6
X X X X X X X
‘Tatemae’
64 items+10 % repeat similar+10 % repeat reversed------------- 76 items in the Extended ASI
Text Design scaffolding :
Cultural thought patterns
Persuasion / Dissuasion
7 - keep back-up copies :
maintain own archives, and share these
minimum of 2 back-up copies. . . in at least two different places :-)
Literature References :
- Reviewers look to your lit refs at first as a simple indication of poor research
- Grey lit ; errors, incomplete, disappears
- keep pdf, print-out
- Keep full lit ref in APA style
- cross-check all references Garrison S+ D+ was least distant
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