Staff profile

Dr Nauman Saeed

eLearning Designer

Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

PhD

Membership of professional Associations

Australian Computer Society

Brief Profile

Nauman is a Lecturer and eLearning Designer in the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law at La Trobe University. His work involves the design and implementation of flexible and blended learning options across the Faculty. Before joining La Trobe he has worked in a similar role at University of Adelaide. Dr Saeed has completed his PhD from Swinburne University of Technology with thesis title "Integration and Acceptance of Web 2.0 Technologies in Higher Education". He has conducted research in eLearning and adoption of Web 2.0 in higher education and has contributed a number of papers to local and international research venues. His current research interests include adoption of social media in higher education and cross cultural examination of learning styles. In addition, he has taught a variety of IT and IS courses for more than 10 years within Australia and overseas.

 

Consulting

eLearning Consultation for FBEL academic staff

Recent Publications

Saeed, N., Sinnappan, S., (2012) ‘Adoption of Second Life in higher education: Measuring the effect of utilitarian and hedonic behaviours’, Special issue of the International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments on "Real Education in Virtual Worlds" (In Press, December 2012 release).

Saeed, N. and Sinnappan, S., (2012) ‘The tale of two cultures: Differences in technology acceptance in Twitter usage’, 23rd Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2012), Geelong, Australia, 3-5 Dec 2011 (Paper accepted).

Saeed, N. and Sinnappan, S., (2012) ‘Do we really learn differently? A case of comparing learning styles of two culturally different groups of students, International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Conference on International Higher Education (IHE 2012), Perth, Australia, 28-30 November 2012 (Paper accepted).

Sinnappan, S. and Saeed, N., (2011) ‘Adoption of micro-blogging (Twitter) by various learner types in an Information Systems unit: an exploratory study’, Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2011), Sydney, Australia, 30 Nov – 2 Dec 2011, Paper #65.

Saeed, N. and Sinnappan, S., (2011) ‘Adoption of Twitter in higher education – a pilot study’, The ASCILITE Conference 2011, Hobart, Australia, 4-7 December 2011, pp. 1115-1120.

Saeed, N. and Sinnappan, S., (2011) ‘iTweet uTweet: the role of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in the adoption of Twitter in an e-commerce unit’, International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Internet Technologies and Society (ITS 2011), Shanghai, China, 8-10 December 2011, pp. 1115-1120.

 

Older Publications

Saeed, N., Yang, Y., Sinnappan, S., (2010) ‘Impact of media richness on user acceptance of blogs and podcasts’, 15th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE’10), Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey, pp. 137-141.

Saeed, N., Yang, Y., Sinnappan, S., (2009) " Emerging Web Technologies in Course Delivery: a case of incorporating blogs, podcasts and social bookmarks in a Web programming course based on students’ learning styles and preferences”, Journal of Educational Technology and Society, 12 (4), pp. 89-109.

 

Saeed, N., Sinnappan, S., (2009) ‘Effects of media richness on user acceptance of Web 2.0 technologies in higher education’, Advanced Learning, In-Tech publications, ISBN: 978- 953-7619, pp. 233-243. 

 

Saeed, N., Yang, Y., Sinnappan, S., (2009) ‘User acceptance of Second Life: An extended TAM with hedonic consumption behaviours’, 17th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS’09), Verona, Italy, pp. 2963-2975.

 

Saeed, N., Yang, Y., Sinnappan, S., (2009) ‘Effects of cognitive style on user acceptance of blogs and podcasts’, 9th International IEEE Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT’09), Riga, Latvia, pp. 293-297.

 

Saeed, N., Yang, Y., and Sinnappan, S., (2008) ‘Media richness and user acceptance of Second Life’, The ASCILITE Conference 2008, Melbourne, Australia, 2008, pp. 851-860.

 

Saeed, N., Yang, Y., (2008) ‘Using learning styles and preferences to incorporate emerging e-learning tools in teaching’ 8th International IEEE Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT’08) Santander, Spain, 2008, pp. 967-971.

 

Saeed, N., Yang, Y., (2008) ‘Incorporating blogs, social bookmarks, and podcasts into unit teaching’ 10th Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE'08), Wollongong, Australia, 2008, pp.113-118.

 

Harmain, H., Elkhatib, H., Saeed, N., (2004) ‘Web services-based Hajj information system’, International Conference on Information & Computer Science, ICICS’04, Saudi Arabia 2004, pp. 547-555.

 

Research projects

OpenTab: developing open educational resources for use on tablet devices at La Trobe

This project uses an open educational (OE) approach to develop course materials for use on tablet devices. It will apply this approach to the development of materials for use in the FBEL’s new Common First Year Core (CFYC) subjects, being designed during 2012 for delivery in 2013. The project will evaluate this approach in order to determine any issues and to provide a model workflow for other subjects in the university. Role: Project member. Budget: $20,500.