A Review of Studies on Teachers’ Roles and Their Limitations in PBL Presentation Context

At all levels of learning and teaching, it is known that teachers play important roles. A teacher’s role may be determined and studied from the functions he performs in different activities. These roles are often stereotyped but under the problem-based learning mode, they are flexible and deserve new studies since the transformation of the teaching and learning model entails a fundamental change of teacher role. As numerous research has been done on teachers’ roles, this paper intends to carry out a literature review of these studies and sort out the possible limitations in problem-based learning environment

The Research on Competitive Abilities for Sustainable Development of Small and Medium-sized Textile Enterprises in Shandong Province

Under the condition of market competition, the success and the failure of the enterprise management is normally regarded as the result of “superior winning while inferior out”. Yet for the community of theorists and entrepreneurs, what are the reasons leading to the enterprise bankruptcy or successful are important research topics. Among the small and medium-sized enterprises in China, most are loose and innovating slowly in their business management. The lower competitive ability has become the serious barrier for their sustainable development. Comprehensive analysis are made on the positive factors and adverse factors affecting sustainable development of small and medium-sized textile enterprises of Shandong Province according to on-the-spot investigations. How to gain and maintain the continued survival and development ability of the enterprises, and how to enhance competitive ability and realize the sustainable development are analyzed. And three kinds of development strategies are put forward

Exploring How Blockchain Impacts Loyalty Program Participation Behaviors: An Exploratory Case Study

How to keep customers motivated in participative behaviors remains one major challenge in extant loyalty program (LP) studies. While some companies have initiated efforts to utilize blockchain-based distributed ledgers and smart contract capabilities to enhance customer experience and improve LP efficiencies, academic assessment of blockchain application in the LP context remains scarce. This research attempts to establish a theoretical overview of how the key natures of blockchain influence customers’ varying motivations (economy, autonomy, competence and relatedness) and perceived value, which consequently induce participative behaviors in a loyalty points context. Then, using an exploratory case study of Bubichain in China, we verify that the blockchain-enabled loyalty points scheme not only improves customers’ economic perceived value by meeting their economic motives, as the traditional one does, but also enhances their social interaction and psychological self-fulfillment value perception by meeting their intrinsic motivations, thus increasing customers’ experience and participation behaviors