Evaluating Islamic Azad University’s Websites based on the Knowledge Management Criteria

This study aims to assess knowledge management standards in the seventh, fourteenth and fifteenth regional branches of Iran Islamic Azad University (IAU) websites.

The present research has been done by a descriptive survey method. The statistical population of this study is consisted of all websites of IAU in the seventh, fourteenth and fifteenth regional branches. An evaluation model known as knowledge Access, Creation and Transfer (K-ACT) was presented for evaluating the academic websites.

Findings show that in standard of knowledge access Sirjan branch has acquired the highest rank among all branches of the three regions. In standard of knowledge creation the website of Zahedan branch, which is placed in the 14th region, has obtained the highest rank. The latest standard is knowledge transfer that Bardsir branch has acquired the best position among all of them. Totally,among the three standards, Zahedan branch obtained the highest rank among all branches of IAU and the second position was is Sirjan branch . At the end,Hajiabad branch got the lowest position.

Although many of academic branches in the three regions were using the internet and information technology, in general, they acted without support from science. They presented the total information of the universities on their websites and did not pay attention to different functions and services which could be done by knowledge management topic in the field of information technology.