Information Overload

the problem is not that traditional media don't deliver enough information. The problem is that they don't deliver enough knowledge. We're not suffering from a dearth of breathless on-the-scene reportage, but a lack of filtering of that breathless reportage to produce useful knowledge about what's actually going on.

Dave Cormier describes an alternative to the traditional notion of knowledge. In place of the expert-centered pedagogical planning and publishing cycle, Cormier suggests a rhizomatic model of learning.

The new Global Information Industry Center (GIIC), in the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS), has just launched its first program, a multi-year study to quantify and qualify the amounts and kinds of information being produced worldwide by businesses and consumers.

Beyond Nostradamus, 7 points on knowledge management in response to Project on National Security Reform