Schedule
July 31
You will be picked up at 7.30am from the lobby of the MerPerle Crystal Palace or Vien Dong South Saigon Hotel to start your one-day cruise excursion of the Mekong Delta with lunch and a visit to a Pagoda. See https://www.informingscience.org/Conferences/InSITE2017/Connect for details.
August 1
You will be picked up at 7.30am from the lobby of the MerPerle Crystal Palace or Vien Dong South Saigon Hotel for a visit to the Cu Chi tunnels. Lunch is included. The car/bus will drop off delegates after the tour at their choice of either District 1 (for shopping) or at your choice of the two conference hotels in District 7. See https://www.informingscience.org/Conferences/InSITE2017/Connect for details.
(ISI Editors-in-Chief: Stay on the bus to attend our EiC Annual meeting that will take at RMIT.)
August 2
Wednesday, August 2 Workshops Day
8:30 Registration for Workshops and separate Registration for Conference including Workshops
9:00 Morning Workshops See https://www.informingscience.org/Conferences/InSITE2017/Workshops for details.
12:00 Lunch sponsored by CODE (the Centre of Digital Excellence)
1:00 Afternoon Workshops See https://www.informingscience.org/Conferences/InSITE2017/Workshops for details.
4:00 tour of campus
5:00 Welcome to the Conference Plenary Session
At conclusion of the session, join us for a conference dinner on campus sponsored for all attendees by the School of Business and Management
August 3
8:30 - Registration desk opens for questions and for those who have not previously registered
9:00-10:30 Opening Plenary session with keynote speaker Gregor Kennedy
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Paper presentations
In Room A
11:00 - 11:30 Anxiety & Performance in Online Learning
Raafat George Saadé, Dennis Kira, Tak Mak, Fassil Nebebe
11:30 - 12:00 Nurture Adolescents’ Cyberethics by Enhancing Their Self-Knowledge and Self-Awareness Using a Pressure-Free Self-
Assessment Strategy [Abstract]
Wing Shui Ng
12:00 - 12:30 Awareness of eSafety and Potential Online Dangers among Children and Teenagers [Abstract]
Gila Cohen Zilka
In Room B
11:00 - 11:30 Observational and Analytic Features for the Study of Transdisciplinary Teams [Abstract]
Gaetano R Lotrecchiano, Shalini Misra
11:30 - 12:00 Fair Assessment of Contribution and Process in Student Team Projects
Marie Devlin, Lindsay F Marshall, Chris Phillips
12:00 - 12:30 Team Skills: Comparing Pedagogy in a Graduate Business School to That of a College of Pharmacy Professional Program
Sabra E. Brock, Zvi G Loewy, F. Ellen Loh
12:30-13:45 Lunch
13:45-15:15 Paper presentations
In Room A
13:45 - 14:15 The Informing Needs of Procurement Officers in Israel
Dan Bouhnik, Yahel Giat, Issachar Zarruk
14:15 - 14:45 Devising Enabling Spaces and Affordances for Personal Knowledge Management System Design
Ulrich Schmitt
14:45 - 15:15 Business Analytics as a Tool to Transforming Information into an Informing System: The Case of the On-Line Course
Dimitar Grozdanov Christozov
In Room B
13:45 - 14:15 The Elements Way: Empowering Parents, Educators, and Mentors in the Age of New Media
Gila Cohen Zilka
14:15 - 14:45 A Knowledge Management IT Tool: An Investigation within a Marketing Introductory Course
Samie Li Shang Ly, Raafat G Saade
14:45 - 15:15 Review of Behavioural Theories in Security Compliance and Research Challenge
Hiep Pham, Linda Brennan, Joan Richardson
15:15-15:45 Coffee break
15:45-17:15 Paper presentations
In Room A
15:45 - 16:15 Lazada's Last Mile: Where No E-Commerce Company in Vietnam Had Gone Before
Jaime J Calbeto, Ahmad Abareshi, Narumon Sriratanaviriyakul, Mathews Nkhoma, Siddhi Pittayachawan, Irfan ulhaq, Fabian Wandt, Hung Xuan Vo
16:15 - 16:45 Why ERP Implementations Fail – A Grounded Research Study
Raafat George Saadé, Harshjot Nijher, Mahesh Chandra Sharma
16:45 - 17:15 Vietnam Trade Policy A Developing Nation Accessment
Dr Steven J Clarke, Mohammadreza Akbari, Shaghayegh Maleki Far
In Room B
15:45 - 16:15 The Impact of e-Skills on the Settlement of Iranian Refugees in Australia
Saeed Shariati, Jocelyn Armarego, Fay Sudweeks
16:15 - 16:45 Let’s Tell a Story Together
Karishma Kelsey, Andrew J. Zaliwski
16:45 - 17:15 Massive Open Online Course: International Experiences and Implications in Vietnam
ly Thị Thảo dang, Sean Watts, Trung Quang Nguyen
August 4
8:30 - Registration desk opens for questions and for those who have not previously registered
9:00-10:30 Paper presentations
Session Time 09:00 - 10:30
In Room A
09:00 - 09:30 Natural Catastrophes and Sovereign Bond Prices
Burkhard N Schrage
09:30 - 10:00 Enhanced Critical Thinking Skills through Problem-Solving Games in Secondary Schools
Scott D McDonald
10:00 - 10:15 Representations of Practice- Distributed Sensemaking Using Boundary Objects
Inge Hermanrud, Dorthe Eide
10:15 - 10:30 Social Networking – Boon or Bane? Student’s Perception of the Role Social Networking Plays in Helping (or Hindering) Learning
Maria Sagrario Resurreccion Simbulan
In Room B
09:00 - 09:30 The Effect of IT Integration on Supply Chain Agility Towards Market Performance (A Proposed Study)
Shaghayegh Maleki Far, Mohammadreza Akbari, Dr Steven J Clarke
09:30 - 10:00 Proposing an Integrated Change Management Model for the United Nations
Raafat George Saadé, James Wan
10:00 - 10:30 Fitness, Extrinsic Complexity and Informing Science
Grandon Gill, Matthew Mullarkey
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Paper presentations
Session Time 11:00 - 12:30
In Room A
11:00 - 11:30 Assessing the Affordances of SimReal+ and their Applicability to Support the Learning of Mathematics in Teacher
Said Hadjerrouit
11:30 - 12:00 Technology versus Quality Education in an Underdeveloped Region: A Case Study of UNISA Students in Former Ciskei Homeland in Eastern Cape
Agyei Fosu
12:00 - 12:30 Can Finance Education Benefit from Online Collaborative Methods? An Experiment
Joe N Abou Jaoude, Raafat G Saade
In Room B
11:00 - 11:30 Vietnam Run: An Alternative Approach to Mobile Learning
Brian McCauley , Li Ping Thong, Mathews Nkhoma, Nhan Nguyen
11:30 - 12:00 Learning Foreign Languages Using Mobile Applications
Ruti Gafni, Dafni Biran Achituv, Gila Rahmani
12:00 - 12:30 The Impact of Utilising Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) on Vocabulary Acquisition among Migrant Women English Learners
Kham Sila Ahmad, Jocelyn Armarego, Fay Sudweeks
In Room C
11:00 - 11:30 Collaboration in Multi-stakeholder, Multi-cultural Organizational Environments
Douglas A Straka
11:30 - 12:00 An Analysis of the Effectiveness of the Constructivist Approach in Teaching Business Statistics
Greeni Maheshwari, Susan Thomas
12:00 - 12:30 Executive Higher Education Doctoral Programs in the United States: A Demographic Market-Based Analysis
Sydney Freeman Jr., Gracie Forthun
12:30-13:45 Lunch sponsored by the Muma College of Business, University of South Florida
13:45-15:15 Plenary session
15:15-15:45 Coffee break
15:45-16:45 Paper presentations
In Room A
15:45 - 16:15 The Impact of a University Experience Program on Rural and Regional Secondary School Students: Keeping the Flame
Joy Penman, Jyothi Thalluri
16:15 - 16:45 The Worforce for the 21st Century
Henry O'Lawrence
In Room B
15:45 - 16:15 Hybrid App Approach: Could It Mark the End of Native App Domination?
Minh Q. Huynh, Prashant Ghimire, Donny Truong
16:15 - 16:45 The Use of Kanban to Alleviate Collaboration and Communication Challenges of Global Software Development
Maureen Tanner, Marcelo Edgar Dauane
18:00-21:30 - Conference Banquet at the Crystal Palace
August 5
8:30 - Registration desk opens for questions and for those who have not previously registered
9:00-10:30 Paper presentations
09:00 - 09:30 Innovating and Entrepreneurial Initiatives: Some Cases of Success
Marta Machín, Carmen De Pablos Heredero
09:30 - 10:00 The Emergent Global Marketing Challenges for Kerala Cardamom Producers Vis-à-Vis The Role Of The Spices Board
Majo George, Elsa Cherian
10:00 - 10:30 Transforming Communications in the Workplace: The Impact of UC on Perceived Productivity in a Multi-national
Joy Fluker, Meg Coffin Murray
In Room B
09:00 - 09:30 Outsourcing Best Practice - The Case of Large Construction Firms in Iran
Mohammadreza Akbari, Dr Steven J Clarke, Shaghayegh Maleki Far
09:30 - 10:00 Entertaining Whilst Defacing Websites: Psychological Games for Hackers
Ashish K Das, Quynh Thi Nguyen, Susan Thomas
10:00 - 10:30 Ransomware: A Research and a Personal Case Study of Dealing with this Nasty Malware
Azad Ali
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Paper presentations
In Room A
11:00 - 11:30 Can Learners Become Teachers? Evaluating the Merits of Student Generated Content and Peer Assessment
David E Murray, Tanya J. McGill, Danny Toohey, Nik Thompson
11:30 - 12:00 Improving Information Technology Curriculum Learning Outcomes
Derrick L Anderson
12:00 - 12:30 Enhancing Students’ Learning through Early Class Preparation
Clara A. Nkhoma, Mathews Nkhoma, Irfan ulhaq, Sang Q Mai
In Room B
11:00 - 11:30 Comparison of Applicant's Results for Studies from Russia and Vietnam at the University of Economics, Prague
Milos Maryska, Petr Doucek, Lea Nedomova
11:30 - 12:00 Remember When Ebooks were all the Rage? A Look at Student Preferences for Printed Text versus Electronic
Vicki L Gregory, Kiersten L Cox
12:00 - 12:30 When Informing Doesn't Inform
Martine Robinson Beachboard, John Beachboard
12:30-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:45 Closing plenary session and planning
