Ah, to be back in school

The University of Texas School of Information is giving a course this semester on Knowledge Management. I385Q Knowledge Management Systems covers a range of topics, and the web page contains a nice collection of KM resources in the form of the class reading for each week. How's this for a list of topics by week:

1. Review of Knowledge Management Concepts


2. Foundations of Knowledge Management


3. Knowledge Management and Technology


4. Social Networks


5. Knowledge Management Infrastructures


6. Email


7. Personal Information Management


8. Personal Knowledge Management


9. Intranets, Portals and Organizational Knowledge


10. GroupWare: Facilitation & Cooperation


11. Collaborative Filtering & Recommender Systems


12. WiFi, UbiComp & Smart Mobs


13. Agents


14. Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval


15. Knowledge Management Systems Synthesis and Analysis

Reading through the topics and the suggested readings, I can really see how the course is laid out. I love that the course includes at least three weeks about how these ideas relate to the individual (email, PIM and PKM) before expanding the idea to enterprise knowledge management. It parallels my thinking that these are tightly connected -- or that they are simply on the same continuum.