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The paper presents some results of the study of KM in the process of transforming an university into a smart one on the basis of smart technologies (via ICT, open innovations, living labs, etc). The mission of the smart university is to teach learners to live and work at the level of the most progressive ideas and culture. The smart university faces the modern challenges and provides visions, insights and approaches to the solution of cultural, professional, scientific and research problems. The knowledge management in the smart university aims at enhancing the quality in the process and performances of educational, research, commercial, social and other activities of the university. The KM in the smart university offers the opportunity to each student, teacher and any participant of the educational process to develop and realize his or her creative, research, professional capabilities to meet the requirements of the labor market and smart society. The paper develops the approach of MESI to transforming an university to a smart one. The smart university is characterized by network collaboration, intensive communication of students and faculty, adaptable project groups for learning by doing in living labs. The smart university needs the formation of a proper knowledge management system based on smart libraries which integrate content, web 2.0, feedback relationship, and involvement of students into knowledge discovery. The paper proposes a practical framework of KM in the smart university (MESI). The paper is of interest for those who deals with the problems of knowledge management in universities in new environment. The smart university aims at training specialists for a knowledge society where the use of smart technologies, cloud computing, open innovations results in progressive qualitative changes in agent's relationships, collaboration, labor mobility, generation of ideas and knowledge, values, sustainable and inclusive economic growth [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At present the world community faces the challenge of building the Smart economy. It is well recognized that the economic progress comes from increased productivity, innovation, competitiveness, economic renewal and creativity of the workforce. The goal of the smart economy is to restore and retain a sustainable economic growth after a depressing crises, to provide a high-quality education system, to promote innovative business environment, to ensure high productivity, to translate knowledge creation into economic return. In this context innovative universities aim at training knowledge workers, forming the competences of learners in line with the requirement of modern labor market in the Smart economy. The graduates face the challenge to generate new ideas and to work in the knowledge- intensive industries that supply advanced ICT devices, systems and networks. The universities in the smart economy need to transform the infrastructure to meet the challenges. The paper presents the innovative infrastructure that facilitates a more full perception of new knowledge, interoperability between internal and external knowledge, a high degree of knowledge and innovation in universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At present there is a change of paradigms in the higher education system. The universities need to respond to challenges within the ongoing global processes and emerging Smart economy. The high quality and assurance of pedagogical, research and innovative activities in universities promotes the economic, social and cultural development of nations. The universities can successfully steer and implement innovations in the educational process if their faculties adapt the methods of teaching and learning to changing environment and create a knowledge culture as a competitive asset. The requirement for intellectual economic activity based on knowledge management and building smart economy engenders the development of learner's competences to enhance the skills of continuous updating knowledge, to raise self-learning, to develop the capabilities of capturing knowledge from diverse knowledge sources, to adequately solve problems in practice. The abovementioned paradigms rest upon the underlying principles of the Bologna reforms in the higher education system. The key instrument in achieving the Bologna goals is a competence approach, that implies not only the specific requirements to the content (what knowledge, skills and attitudes graduates should possess) but also to a behavior component (abilities to use knowledge and skills in decision making within professional settings). At present competences are broadly treated as the incentives and readiness to use knowledge, skills and personal attitudes to successfully perform the tasks assigned. The paper aims at developing the principles and methods of building the models of the professional competences in line with the adequate profile-oriented study programs based on the academic knowledge management. The study develops a theoretical framework for the methodology of generating professional competences needed to create, develop and update academic knowledge. A specific research focus is placed on developing the methods of shaping professional competences and implementing them into the study programs and on the mechanism of adapting education to the challenges of smart economy by using eLearning and smart technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents a model of continuous profession-oriented learning in the electronic environment at organizational, technological and learning levels. The learning level involves the application of modern technologies in e-pedagogies. The educational process is being built on the bases of iterative analysis, competence assessment and individual trajectories of learning. The organizational level implies the formation of integrated knowledge space which unites community of teachers from various higher educational institutions, research organizations and business enterprises within the system of academic knowledge management. At the technological level the members and partners of the integrated knowledge space are provided with appropriate instruments within the framework of social networks to develop educational and methodological materials, to search, to capture, to accumulate and to systematize knowledge with respect to the competence model's requirements based on ontology method. The model aims at developing the methodology for creating and maintaining the intelligence systems to generate comprehensive competences. It enables the education institutions to effectively solve the problem of enhancing the education quality and assurance to meet the requirements of the business innovative development in knowledge society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]