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Recommended Citation: Shelfer, K M and D Adams. Experimental Learning: Competitive Intelligence, Knowledge Management, and Technology Transfer. In The Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference 2000, v 17 (Philadelphia): §940.

Experimental Learning: Competitive Intelligence, Knowledge Management, and Technology Transfer

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Katherine M. Shelfer    [a1] [a2]
College of Information Science and Technology
Drexel University    [u1] [u2]
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA    [c1] [c2]

Doug Adams    [a1] [a2]
College of Information Science and Technology
Drexel University    [u1] [u2]
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA    [c1] [c2]

The academic Information Technology (IT) curriculum is evolving to respond to the globalization and diversification of information space. IT educators continue to (1) expand traditional definitions of information work and (2) offer courses and opportunities for experiential learning that extend beyond the boundaries of contemporary use of IT. This is key to the continued long-term relevance of IT programs in traditional academic institutions. This paper presents a discussion of competitive intelligence (CI) education embedded in one university's IT program. Focus is placed on the student's (co-author Doug Adams) experimental learning activity implemented by his field experience in a nearby technology transfer center that integrated course content and business objectives with particular emphasis on adding value to the technology transfer process itself. Despite the existence of innovative CI software, such applications have not traditionally been part of the basic IT curriculum. That is why the use of technology transfer centers provides a good substitute. This paper concludes with a discussion of the resulting benefits to the student, to the institutions involved and to the technology transfer process as a whole. These benefits were the direct result of this student's subsequent engagement in independent problem-solving activities that grew out of his experiential learning activities.

Keywords: experimental learning, cross-disciplinary, common platform, technology transfer, poster session

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