Knowledge trends that will recreate a smart world: a case study of Mount Kenya University

Abstract

In a world of fast knowledge development, none of us will have the capability to know much of anything at all. The most important skill we will have will be the ability to go out to get the right knowledge for the right purpose at the right time. We want to have a world of just in time knowledge. This leads to massive career specialization fostering greater fragmentation of skills, and thus greater competition in the marketplace for niche-oriented skills. Since we are reaching a world in which everything around us is getting plugged into everything else and manufacturing is fundamentally changing. Mount Kenya University has applied fundamental structures to the new generation that prefers to get work done in odd hours, using technology: they care less about structures. They define their lives not by what they do for a living, but what they like to do. This study intends to establish the current trends Mount Kenya University has applied in checking on Exponential growth of knowledge. The study aims at giving findings on the challenges to be encountered in giving the services on its esteem users and knowledge networks. The study will target three Mount Kenya university campuses namely Mombasa, Malindi and Virtual campuses. The target sample will be three hundred users out of a population of three thousand users. The technique to be used will be simple random sampling where respondents will be selected to fill questionnaires that will be placed to collect the data.