Knowledge management in higher education: ICT equipment, skills and attitudes of croatian polytechnic students

Abstract

Knowledge management has become an important competitive tool in organisations as it enables them to enhance efficiency and effectiveness. Although lagging behind the business sector in its implementation, higher education is by its very nature directed towards knowledge management. Through their research work higher education institutions participate in the creation of knowledge, whereas knowledge dissemination is carried out through publications and student education. Information and communication technologies (ICT) play a key role in knowledge management. To be able to participate in a knowledge management project, students need to have adequate equipment at their disposal and be ICT literate. Starting with these premises, our research was designed to assess ICT equipment and skills among Croatian polytechnic students and to determine how they perceive certain aspects of knowledge management project. In the research, principal components and factor analysis were applied.