Defining knowledge - Part II

With a better understanding of what knowledge is, we can now define the different forms of knowledge.

Explicit knowledge, is often found in a tangible format. It is what we capture in books, newspapers, lecture notes, and electronic files. A researcher records his interpretation of a lab experiment into a notebook, transforming it into explicit knowledge. Organizations use filing systems to organize and search mechanisms like Google to then locate this type of knowledge. Many organizations, especially education organizations, face the constant challenge of effectively categorizing and updating this form of knowledge, so the latest versions are always easily accessible.

Implicit, also known as tacit, knowledge resides in people's heads and is not easily written down. It is what we learn through cultural immersion, storytelling, and personal experience. Teachers often draw the most valuable lessons in training programs from real-life classroom stories of peers or mentors. Accessing these experiences becomes more difficult outside of the school context as few formal networks and processes successfully tap into tacit knowledge.

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