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Victor B. Kreng
Submitted by tom on Wed, 12/19/2007 - 19:33.
Position:
ProfessorDepartment:
IIM / Industrial and Information ManagementPhD school:
Ph.D. , Purdue University, USACourses:
Knowledge ManagementResearch interests:
E-Business and Supply Chain Management; Technology Management, Manufacturing System Engineering; Artificial Intelligence
Contact e-mail:
kreng@mail.ncku.edu.tw»
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My thoughts - Prof. Kreng
I have had Professor Kreng in Knowledge Management (fall semester 2007). The course was a shared IMBA/PhD course with give or take 40 students and I would like to share my experiences as a IIM-PhD student:
Professor Kreng had immediately caught my sympathies, the moment he introduced himself and set up the rules of the class:
"You can do whatever I am allowed to do:
I can drink in class, so can you; I don't eat in class and so don't you.
I prepare for my classes and so do you.
When you speak I listen, but when I speak you are quiet."
I guess this opening statement can very well describe Professor Kreng's lecturing style. He is a straight forward, very open, always friendly and smiling person. Students in his class are ENCOURAGED to speak out (yes, you are reading correctly! This is possible!), ask questions and start discussions.
The workload can be considered as relatively low, no mid- or end term exams. One group presentation (case-study) and a term paper, both at the end of the semester. The first classes were concentrated on one book chapter and a group-work with presentation afterwards.
The bookwork is presented by Professor Kreng using the presentations accompanying the book, is explained well with his personal comments and experience to each topic.
What I especially liked about the course was the fact that Professor Kreng has invited three international guest-speakers, that were able to give us their experiences about knowledge management from an intercultural context. I think this should be done in far more courses, because these are exactly the aspects why I have decided to come to Taiwan to join an international program and not continue my studies in Germany.
I may add, since this class is about knowledge management and sharing, it is unnecessary to say all classes were recorded with state-of-the-art technology incl all PowerPoint's etc. I am sorry I do not have the link where it is available (the navigation is in Chinese).
I can highly recommend this course and I hope Professor Kreng will be giving other courses for the IIM in future.
Here the link for watching online !!!
Here is the link you can watch online for KM class. Go to this weblink http://iteach.ncku.edu.tw/ , then you need to log in with your student ID and pwd for YYMMDD (taiwanese year). But all are in chinese interface.:(
"No pain no gain, but not all pain is a gain"
iTeach guide
is available on INCKU here :
http://www.incku.com/forum/instruction-ncku-e-learning-system%2C-i-teach.
Will take you step by step... In English.
not always Taiwanese year!!
while most students must enter the Taiwanese year of their birthday, it never worked with me. Until I went to iTeach dept. and they explained me, you must enter the birthyear as printed on the backside of your student's ID card. This has turned out to be not exactly true either, because Olga had to use the Taiwanese year instead of the one printed on her ID card.
confused? me too!