Personal Knowledge Management in Outreach and Instruction

Development Of Personal Knowledge Management

Buckminster Fuller (Shilling, 2013) estimated that prior to 1900, knowledge doubled about every century; however, recent estimates show that human knowledge is now doubling every 12-13 months. According to learning-centered brain research neurologist Dr. Judy Willis (2009), at any given moment only about 2,000 bits out of the millions of discrete pieces of information that a person’s senses are constantly bombarded with can reach that person’s conscious attention. The disparity between the rate of expansion of human knowledge and the ability of an individual to assimilate information cuts right to the heart of the biggest challenge of the information age.