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Quality education is one of the most important and effective ways to promote national competitiveness. Schools are education-oriented places, but the major resource is knowledge that teachers' effective knowledge management is related to the future development of schools. Being the first-line personnel in education, teachers are facing the role of education, students, and working for knowledge delivery. Knowledge management would not simply affect students' learning outcomes but also the effectiveness of running a school. Targeting higher education schools in the south of Taiwan, teachers and administrative staff were distributed 300 copies of a questionnaire usung with random sampling techniques. A total of 223 valid copies were retrieved, with the retrieval rate 74%. Based on the research results, suggestions are proposed, assisting higher education teachers present good knowledge management ability and promote teaching quality to make students' learning more effective and benefit the promotion of school effectiveness.
Keywords: higher education school, knowledge management, learning style, professional performance
Introduction
Quality education is one of the most important and effective ways to promote national competitiveness, and "pursuing excellence and promoting quality" is the ultimate goal of education (Nesje, 2015). A school is the major place to systematically promote education activity with plans that the management and development cannot be ignored. The establishment of effective school organizations and the provision of the best learning opportunity for each learner are the primary content of education research and reform. A knowledge-basic economic society, with knowledge as the major asset, is led by knowledge workers. In the knowledge-based society after capitalism, the application and production of knowledge are the power of economic growth. The concept of teachers' knowledge management comes from business, where the establishment and circulation of organizational members' knowledge could be enhanced through knowledge internalization and explicitness to further enhance the members' work effectiveness and school effectiveness (Nadelson & Finegan, 2014).
Teachers' knowledge management requires the development and establishment of database with information technology as well as the constant research and innovation through knowledge creation, confirmation, collection, organization, sharing, adjustment, and use to achieve the knowledge innovation and sharing and facilitate personal growth and organizational progress. Teachers' knowledge management is the management of knowledge applied in organizations, through knowledge collection, organization, save, transformation, spread, transfer, sharing, and application,...