Abstract: The research devoted knowledge communication within the academic environment. Participants from different Russian universities were involved to the research. The results show new ways of delivering knowledge to students as well as improving knowledge management tools and methodology. The development of information and communications technology (ICT) has a great deal of influence on the information environment. Information tools and methodology are changing rapidly. There are many knowledge communications which can be used during vocational, scientific or ordinary activities. As a rule knowledge sources are classified according to users and subjects. Scientific reviews publish learned papers, which are considered as a source of new knowledge. There is a variety of resources for entertainment, inquiry, business and other purposes. The blending and even the replacement of one knowledge source by another can be seen everywhere. In general, this shows an increasing access to knowledge. But the assessment of the results of using such an approach cannot be so optimistic because this depends on the quality of the knowledge resource. References to Wikipedia are getting increasingly common in student papers, replacing references to books and scholarly journals. Nowadays different sources of knowledge compete with a variety of online resources for the attention of the Internet users. Every day, a student using the Internet has a difficult task of determining which online resource should be used for academic work. This project has been funded with support from the European Commissionduring TEMPUS ECOMMIS (www.ecommis.eu).

Keywords: academic knowledge, information and communications technology (ICT), knowledge communications.

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RESEARCH INTO KNOWLEDGE COMMUNICATION WITHIN THE ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT

Natalia Dneprovskaya, Irina Koretskaya, Vladimir Dik

http://www.foibg.com/ijitk/ijitk-vol08/ijitk08-01-p10.pdf