Lecture 6
Knowledge Acquisition & Application

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

Four Dimensions of Personality Type

Interest

Extroversion - Introversion

Perception

Sensing - Intuition

Judgement

Thinking - Feeling

Environment

Judgement - Perception

Psychomotor Skills

perception, set, guided, response

Affective Domain

receiving phenomena, responding to phenomena

Cognitive Domain

knowledge comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation

Course Objective

Use

Model

Identify

Describe

Monitor, value, categorize, report

Knowledge Producer

Persons who produced knowledge or object

Knowledge Intermediary

Prepares knowledge for reuse by indexing, packaging, marketing

Knowledge Reuser

Retrieves, understands and applies knowledge

Small Organization focus on knowledge acquisition

Large organization in contrast have difficulty finding and reusing knowledge

Reuse Situation

Shared work producers

Shared work practitioners

Expertise-seeking novices

Secondary knowledge miners

Knowledge Repository Content

Factual

terminology, specified details and elements

Conceptual

theories, models, principles and generalizations

Procedural

skills, algorithms, technique and methods

Meta-cognitive

knowledge about knowledge: learning, thinking, problem-solving

Knowledge Repository Features

Links to organizational and external sources

Case studies and histories

Discussion topics