ارزیابی نظام آموزش عالی برمبنای مؤلفه های مدیریت دانش

In a century which is known as knowledge era for maintaining, leading and purposeful increasing of knowledge assets of organizations, knowledge management is a new attempt. The attempt refers to the fact that investment in awareness acquiring will result in getting the most and the best privilege. In this inquiry, the basic elements of knowledge management in higher education were explored. The method of inquiry from the point of purpose is practical and from the point of procedure is descriptive (correlation). The data were gathered through referring to libraries, documents and surveying (by using a researcher-made questionnaire). The sample contains 125 managers of superior, medium, and junior ranks in different units of Azad University in Tehran. The sample was selected by chance. Then, by using the Test T from Pierson and Spierman, the gathered data were analyzed. The results show that: 1- the main components of knowledge management in Azad University include: detecting, acquiring, applying and expanding of different kinds of knowledge; 2 applying of knowledge acquiring element has been excellent; 3 applying of knowledge using element has been not so good; 4 applying of knowledge expanding element has been satisfactory; 5 applying of knowledge detecting has been acceptable. Meanwhile, element of knowledge acquiring by managers has had the first place and the element of knowledge applying has had the fourth place.