The Role of Knowledge Management in Ensuring The Quality of Higher Education An Applied Study in The Iraqi Private Universities

Abstract

We do not have to stand in the era of knowledge and be surprised by the boom brought about by knowledge and its
value, which has become one of the value of water and air for the life of any person or system in this society that is built,
continues and thrives with knowledge. The complexity of which is directly in line with the need for knowledge, and the
significant increase in interest in knowledge and the expansion of its roles is an optimum evidence and another strong
confirmation of the best knowledge for humanity to reach this degree of thinking and civilized sophistication, where
knowledge - as a priority of priorities - is targeted, applied and managed as well. Knowledge management is not something
new, because the exchange and sharing of knowledge has been known since time immemorial, and books, education and
training were among the tools for its delivery by those who would like to publish it, but what is new here is the great and
surprising interest in knowledge management in the last two decades in particular, with the increasing acceleration in the
movement of innovation And scientific and technological creativity, which has turned into an organized knowledge activity of
an institutional nature, where realizing the importance of knowledge and owning it is not a criterion for excellence, but rather it
is a wise act with it so that it becomes useful. Thus, knowledge management came to the present, ready to fly with its
distinctive applications for the future, especially when the computer began to identify it after it was only fluent in the language
of data and information. What is knowledge management? Can knowledge actually be managed? Especially in light of its
intangibility and the fact that the person who owns it is not a means for conducting experiments, it is the goal for which
experiments are conducted. Why this sudden interest in her? What are its documents, principles, strategies, operations... and
other questions that we are trying to answer in order to understand the peculiarities of knowledge management, starting with an
attempt to know the background of the remarkable transformation that resulted in knowledge management