Schedule
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
