Knowledge Transfer Cycle

The Knowledge Transfer Cycle

The diagram below illustrates a vision of how information technologies can be used to enhance relationships and communication among three major elements of the local community. In this example the concepts of School, Community, and Library serve as place holders to describe functional roles that are critical to the over all existance and health of a comunity. The Networked Inforamtion Discovery and Retrieval (NIDR) tools serve as the conduits to exhange or impart knowledge and communications from one sector to the other.

School involves teachers and students. In this model the individuals are involved in lifelong learning and as such are not limited to the traditional K-12 model. Therefore students and teacher are not bound by age, gender, race or experiential background -- learning takes place anywhere, anytime, and in multiple modes via NIDR technologies. The term "skills" is used in the sense that we talk about lifelong learning skills as well as critical thinking skills.

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The Library is the traditional place where knowledge is develped, stored, and transfered. In this regard the Library as an institution acts as a value adder and a broket. Once again, in our scenario this Library is not just one place nor just one organization -- this is in fact all the traditional and non traditional information providers of the community.

The Community is made up of all the consumers and producers of knowledge. They work within various contextual environments to deal with (consume or produce) content.

Main Document -- Knowledge Transfer Cycle -- CLIC Model

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