Dr Mathew Hillier

Biography/ Background

Please note I have moved!
I now hold an academic post in TEDI at the University of Queensland in Brisbane Australia.

New contact details are:

Email: mathew.hillier [at] uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 3365 7346
Homepage: http://www.uq.edu.au/uqresearchers/researcher/hillierms.html

During 2011 I will continue to hold visitor status in the Centre for Learning and Professional Development (CLPD), University of Adelaide.

My exisitng University of adelaide email will account continue to work, however my University of Adelaide office phone number is no longer valid.

I am currently specialising in e-assessment within web 2.0 and 3D virtual worlds (see Transforming Assessment).

At University of Adelaide I previously taught within the Graduate Certificate in Online Learning (Higher Education) during 2010.

Prior to that I have been a consultant and an academic in higher education in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong (China) since 1997. I welcome further consulting opportunities in any of the areas listed on this page.

I have teaching experience in traditional, online and transnational education in areas such as organisational information management, information systems, project management, computer applications, digital media design, website design/interface usability, e-commence/e-business, social-technical problem analysis, critique, critical thinking, social informatics and business communications.

Qualifications

Ph.D in IT (Information Systems, Systemic Perspectival Thinking), Monash University.

Bachelor of Business (Honours)(Information Systems), University of South Australia.

Bachelor of Business (Information Systems), University of South Australia.

Graduate Certificate in Teaching (ESL), Flinders University

Teaching Interests

• Topic areas:
  
  • E-assessment
  • Online Education
    
  • Electronic Commerce
  • Website design and implementation
  • Multimedia and photography
  • Social Informatics
  • Communications
  • Strategic Systems Thinking
  • Project Management
  • Business Information Systems
• Teaching approaches used:
  
  • Case studies
  • Problem based learning
  • Paired learning
  • Industrial projects
  • Collaborative projects
  • Group discussion and reporting
  • Individual research
  • Argumentative essay and reports
  • Instructor lead training and self exploratory exercises
  • Online discussion, websites, blogs, virtual classrooms, 3D virtual spaces, podcasts
  • Integration of academic research and classroom teaching

List of Courses Taught

Courses/subjects have been delivered via traditional classroom/campus based methods as well as using distance, online, and hybrid tans-national delivery models. Courses are listed alphabetically.

• Advanced Electronic and Multimedia Publishing (University of South Australia) (2009)
• Business Information Systems (University of South Australia) (1996-1998)
• Communication for Information Systems and Technology (University of South Australia) (2009)
• Computers, Communication and Society (University of South Australia) (2006-2009)
• Cyber Business, (Le Cordon Bleu, Regency Institute of TAFE) (2001)
• Digital Media Techniques (University of South Australia, Singapore and SAIBT) (2007-2009)
• Electronic Publishing on the Internet (University of South Australia) Singapore and Hong Kong (2006-2009)
• ICT Literacy in Higher Education [Grad Cert] (Adelaide University) (2010)
• Information Resource Management [Masters] (University of South Australia) (Online 2009)
• Information Systems 1 (Adelaide University) (2008-2009)
• Information Technology Applications 1 (Flinders University) (2005-2006)
• Information Technology Concepts (University of South Australia) (2000)
• Information Technology Practice - Project management (Flinders University) (2005)
• Introduction to e-Business (University of South Australia) (2000-2002)
• Managing Organisational Information (University of South Australia/Hong Kong Baptist University) (2009)
• Online Learning Communities [Grad Cert] (Adelaide University) (2010)
• Online Learning Design, Assessment and Evaluation [Grad Cert] (Adelaide University) (2010)
• Project Management for Business [Masters] (University of South Australia) (2008)
• Project Management: Principles and Strategy (University of South Australia) (2008)
• Special Topics in Information Systems (University of South Australia) (1998-2000)
• Systems Inquiry [Masters] (IOTA) Developer (2006)
• The Changing Nature of Educational Research [Grad Cert] (Adelaide University) (2010)
• World Wide Web Development (University of South Australia) (2000-2005)

Projects

I am currently working on Transforming Assessment with Professor Geoffrey Crisp and Mr Shamim Joarder. This project looks at e-assessment within web 2.0 and virtual world learning environments.

Some other recent projects with which I have been involved:

• Army History (27th Battalion) Digital Text with Dr Paul Skrebels and Dr Claire Woods
• Peer Review of Online Teaching and Learning with Dr Denise Wood and team
• Problem Based Learning with Dr Carmen Joham
• Teaching Research Nexus with Dr Denise Wood and team

Research Interests

• Computer assisted assessment systems
• Cultural influences on system design
• Digital photography and Multimedia
• e-Business
• HTML/CSS authoring
• Information systems role in the organisation
• Internet Commerce
• Multiple perspectives
• Online learning
• Representing complex social messes using rich pictures
• Social informatics
• Soft systems
• Strategic thinking
• User interface design and Human computer interaction
• Web Site design
• Wicked problem analysis

Publications

Published (Refereed)

Note: Copies are available upon request

Crisp, G., Hillier, M., & Joarder, S. (2010). Assessing students in Second Life – some options. In C. H. Steel, M. J. Keppell, P. Gerbic, & S. Housego (Eds), Curriculum, technology & transformation for an unknown future. Proceedings of the 26th Annual ASCILITE Conference: Curriculum, technology and transformation for an unknown future, Sydney. (pp. 256–261). http://ascilite.org.au/conferences/sydney10/procs/Crisp-concise.pdf

Gregory, S., Lee, M., Ellis, A., Gregory, B., Wood, D., Hillier, M., Campbell, M., Grenfell, J., Pace, S., Farley, H., Thomas, A., Cram, A., Sinnappan, S., Smith, K., Hay, L., Kennedy-Clark, S., Warren, I., Grant, S., Craven, D. and Dreher, H. (2010). Australian higher education institutions transforming the future of teaching and learning through virtual worlds. Proceedings of the 26th Annual ASCILITE Conference: Curriculum, technology and transformation for an unknown future, Sydney. *best paper award

Hanisch, J., Falconer, D., Horrocks, S & Hillier, M. (eds) (2003) "The Proceedings of the Seventh Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems", 10-13 July, Adelaide, South Australia

Hillier, M. & Vogel, D. (2003) "Soft Method for Systems Projects in SMEs", 7th Pacific Asia Conference of Information Systems 2003, 10-13 July, Adelaide, Australia

Hillier, M. (2002) "Multilingual Website Usability: Cultural Context" Proceedings of the International Conference on Electronic Commerce 2002, 22-25 October, Hong Kong, China. *nominated for best paper

Hillier, M. (2002) "Thinking About Systems Design Problems Using the T.O.P2 Framework" Proceedings of the 6th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems 2002, 2-4 September, Tokyo, Japan

Hillier, M. (2003) "A multiple perspectives questioning tool for Information systems definition", Americas Conference of Information Systems 2003, 4-6 August, Tampa, USA (abstract to round table)

Hillier, M. (2003) "The role of cultural context in multilingual website usability" Journal of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Vol 2, No 1, pp. 2-14, Elsevier Science

Hillier, M. (2004) "Multiple Perspectives on the Musings of Systems Analysts", Proceedings of the 8th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems 2004, 8-11 July, Shanghai, China

Limayem, A., Hillier, M. & Vogel, D. (2003) "Sophistication of Online Tourism Websites in Hong Kong: An Exploratory Study", Americas Conference of Information Systems 2003, 4-6 August, Tampa, USA 

Other Papers

Crisp, G., Hillier, M., & Joarder, S. (2010). Assessing students in Second Life with scripted chatbots. Paper presented at the ATN Assessment Conference 2010: Assessment: Sustainability, Diversity and Innovation, Sydney, Australia, November 18-19. http://www.iml.uts.edu.au/pdfs/CRISP.pdf

Working Papers

Hillier, M (2001) "Input devices and web page (or system or interface) usability: A case study of workplace based public access terminals"

Hillier, M (2002) "Arguing for fully funding PhD researcher conference attendance", University of South Australia

Hillier, M (2002) "Which Culture? Projecting Image on E-Commerce Websites" Book chapter proposal for Idea group publishing

Hillier, M (2004) "Multiple Perspectives on the Nature of Internet Dating Services"

Hillier, M (2004) "Who knows Who – Degrees of knowing you - Concentrations, Clusters and Clubs in the Information Systems Research Community"

Hillier, M (2006) "A brief history of systems thinking"

Hillier, M (2006) "A brief introduction to systems"

Hillier, M (2006) "Flavours of systems inquiry"

Hillier, M (2006) "Perspectives on the Perspectival"

Hillier, M (2006) "Streams of Interpretive systems inquiry"

Hillier, M (2006) "Systems for thinking"

Hillier, M (2006) "Wicked social problems"

Hillier, M. & Jenkins A. (2004) "Multiple Perspectives on A Mobile Entertainment Community"

Sorribas, J. & Hillier, M. (2004) "Website Adoption by Australian Golf Clubs – Some Early Findings from a Nationwide Survey"

Teaching in virtual worlds (an Association of virtual worlds group paper for Ascilite 2010)

National summary of Teaching in Virtual Worlds across Australia in Tertiary Education (a symposium proposal for Ascilite 2010)

Hillier, M, 2010 "Mapping e-learning technologies to learning outcomes"

Hillier, M, 2010 "Implementing e-assessment in Australian Universities: a systems thinking view"

Community Engagement

Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems

URL: http://pacis2003.org

Level of involvement: Committee Member

Year from: 2002

Year to: 2003 Comments: Organising committee member and Web site co-ordinator

Entry last updated: Wednesday, 6 Jul 2011