[Sighfis-l] Online Open House About the Online Knowledge Management Master's Degree or Certificate at Kent State

[Thomas J. Froehlich]

Please join us on Thursday, October 29, 2009, from 12:00 PM to 1:30 
PM (EST), for an online, interactive session on the certificate 
program and Master of Science degree in Knowledge Management at Kent 
State University. To view the presentation follow this link: 
<http://tinyurl.com/yza5yqr>http://tinyurl.com/yza5yqr.  If you are 
unable to attend the presentation, you may click on the same link for 
a recorded session of the event. For additional information about 
viewing this online open house, go to: 
<http://iakm.kent.edu/>http://iakm.kent.edu/.

Potential students should find this informational meeting helpful in 
learning more about getting started in KM and our program. Live 
viewers will be able to ask questions of the presenters through their 
computers online.

<http://iakm.kent.edu/people/faculty/froehlich.html>Dr. Thomas J. 
Froehlich, Director of the Masters Program in Information 
Architecture and Knowledge Management, will provide an overview of 
the program and its online options in the area of Knowledge Management.

<http://iakm.kent.edu/people/faculty/denise-bedford.html>Dr. Denise 
Bedford, the incoming Goodyear Professor in Knowledge Management, 
will speak about her background, experience and expertise in 
knowledge management and will provide an overview of the two courses 
she will be teaching for the IAKM program in the fall, Foundational 
Principles of Knowledge Management and the Economics of Information.

Dr. Bedford holds a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University 
of California, Berkeley. She has been the Senior Information Officer 
at the World Bank since 1997, where she is responsible for management 
of the World Bank's core metadata strategy, including content type 
strategy and the various ontologies that support Bank metadata.

She has taught courses at the University of Tennessee, Georgetown 
University, Catholic University of America, University of Richmond, 
and George Mason University.