Professional course Knowledge Management

Entry year: 2025/26
Course code: Z41000071
Application: University
Level: Professional/Short Course
School: School of Computing and Creative Technologies
Campus: Frenchay
Duration: Twelve sessions, scheduled over fourteen weeks
Delivery: Through weekly lectures
Course Director: Dr Mohammed Odeh

Introduction

This course can count towards one of our postgraduate qualifications within our Information Management and Information Technology Awards.

Accreditations and partnerships:

Good knowledge and information governance remains undervalued and poorly practiced in many organisations. This module looks at the links between data, information and knowledge and introduces tools and techniques which can help us to understand and capitalize on knowledge assets.

Entry requirements

Participants are expected to have a first degree at 2.2 level or above (or equivalent), or alternatively have six-months of relevant industrial experience.

If you are a non-UK student you will need to show your passport on entry to the UK. Please check your eligibility to visit and study in the UK here. If you are a non-Irish EU national currently resident in Ireland please contact us directly for further advice.

If English is not your country's first language, you will be required to provide evidence to show you meet the UK Border Agency and the University's minimum English Language requirements. Further details are available on our English Language Requirements webpage

We strongly recommend that you speak to the course tutor prior to the course if you are unsure about your suitability to complete the assessment.

Careers / Further study

This module can be taken as a standalone module, or used to build up credit towards a named postgraduate qualification (PG Certificate, PG Diploma or Masters) within our Information Management and Information Technology awards

Structure

Content

This module will cover the following topic areas:

Introduction to Information and Knowledge Management: Understanding data, information and knowledge; objectivist and constructivist perspectives of knowledge; distinctions between data management, information management and knowledge management in organisations. Understanding the roles of the records manager and knowledge specialist.
Managing Data: Data management principles; Data lifecycle; role of the Data Analyst; data security.
Managing Information 1,2,3: Best practice and the legal environment; risk and information governance; information audits and policies; digital preservation.
Knowledge Sharing 1 & 2: Collaborative working in the organisation - people and practices; collaborative working in the organisation - IT tools and techniques. Communities of practice; Nonaka and Takeuchi's knowledge spiral; single and double loop learning; role of social media. Enabling cultures and barriers.
Knowledge Societies: Exploring role of information and knowledge for sustainable development worldwide.
Organisational culture and learning: Different categories of knowledge, e.g. tacit and explicit; propositional, practical, experiential; knowledge in action; knowing as culturally situated, artefact mediated, socially distributed, personal and provisional. Organisational knowledge and learning: individual, social and critical perspectives.
Developing the learning organisation: Senge's model including fifth discipline; features of learning organisation; research case studies of learning organisations and top UK and global companies.
Personal Knowledge Management: Understanding the role of the personal in the organisational setting; seek, sense, share model (Jarche); role of social media in PKM.

Learning and Teaching

Scheduled learning is via weekly lectures, including discussions and exercises/case studies in class.

The teaching material is available from Blackboard (our online learning environment).

Study time

This module (course) will involve 2 hours direct contact time per week for one semester.

A 15 credit module, like this, is expected to take 150 hours to complete:

24 hrs lectures and face to face discussion
30 hrs online learning via VLE teaching materials and online discussion groups/contributions to wikis etc.
66 hrs independent learning via essential reading
30 hours assignment preparation and completion.

Assessment

Assessment consists of a short answer exam, a professional standard report and an investigation into a knowledge sharing tool of choice.

For more details, see our full glossary of assessment terms.

Features

Professional accreditation

This module is accredited by the Chartered Institute for Library, Information and Knowledge Professionals.

Study facilities

The University has excellent facilities, accessible to all students, as required; however, it is expected that much of the work will be carried within the work environment.

Find out more about the facilities and resources UWE Bristol has to offer.

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Prices and dates

Supplementary fee information

Course dates

Cohort January 2025	Time	Location
Wednesday 29 January 2025	16:30 - 18:30	Frenchay Campus
Wednesday 5 February 2025	16:30 - 18:30	Frenchay Campus
Wednesday 12 February 2025	16:30 - 18:30	Frenchay Campus
Wednesday 19 February 2025	16:30 - 18:30	Frenchay Campus
Wednesday 26 February 2025	16:30 - 18:30	Frenchay Campus
Wednesday 5 March 2025	16:30 - 18:30	Frenchay Campus
Wednesday 12 March 2025	16:30 - 18:30	Frenchay Campus
Wednesday 19 March 2025	16:30 - 18:30	Frenchay Campus
Wednesday 26 March 2025	16:30 - 18:30	Frenchay Campus
Wednesday 2 April 2025	16:30 - 18:30	Frenchay Campus
Wednesday 30 April 2025	16:30 - 18:30	Frenchay Campus
Wednesday 7 May 2025	16:30 - 18:30	Frenchay Campus

Course fees

All prices are VAT exempt.

Cohort	January 2025
UK participants	£896
International participants	£1,438

For information on fees, managing your money and determining your fee status, please go to our fees and funding pages.

Course location

UWE Bristol, Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY

How to find UWE Bristol

How to apply

This course is planned to run again in 2025. Please complete our online enquiry form below to be notified once these details are made available.

As this module carries university accreditation, please note that once you have submitted your booking form, you will be required to provide the following supporting information for the Tutor to be able to review and formally accept your application as required by the university:

An up-to-date copy of your Curriculum Vitae (including contact details of a work or academic reference)
A brief personal statement to support your application
A copy of your highest qualification certificate and transcript of modules studied
A copy of photographic proof of ID (i.e. driver's licence/passport). For non UK students, this must be a copy of your passport

Cohort
January 2025	Book Now	Enquire Now

For further information

Email: For specific questions in relation to the course content, suitability, assessments, etc. please contact the Module Leader, Dr Mohammed Odeh (+4411732 83700). For all queries regarding administration aspects of registration, i.e. dates, fees, etc. please contact us using the online enquiry form link or telephone number below.
Telephone: +44 (0)117 32 81043 (option 1, then option 3)