Pedagogical fundamentals of the research of knowledge management development in higher education

The research presents the fundamentals of the impact of the personality-centered vector on
knowledge management development in higher education. In the course of theoretical generalization, the
author's definition of the concept of “knowledge management” is formulated and its expositional orientation
on meeting market needs of highly skilled personnel is emphasized. Knowledge management development at
the personal level in terms of implicit, disjunctive, and conjunctive approaches are problematized. The effects
of using advanced information technologies and teaching aids in the educational process of higher education,
which deepen knowledge management development at the inter-sectoral level are emphasized. The importance
of conducting an institutional audit of educational establishments is generalized, which allows identifying the
level of compliance of the quality of knowledge management development with the requirements of current
standards. The system-forming structure of the institutional audit of educational activity is presented, which
represents the competitiveness of the functioning of the diagnosed study program according to the researched
criteria. The necessity of a comprehensive analysis of the issue of knowledge management development to
identify the level of their development to the demands of current social progress is summarized.