Dr. Saida Affouneh is the dean of faculty of education and Tecaher training and also the founder and director of the E-Learning Center (ELC) in An-Najah National University, and assistant professor in Faculty of Education and Teacher training. She is the coordinator of Zamala fellowship for imrproving the quality of higher education.

Dr. Saida Affouneh was  working as consultant to develop a national policy paper for open education, a Project sponsored by AQAQ (Accreditation and Quality Assurance Commission) and AMIDEAST.

She was the Chairperson of the international conference for learning and teaching in the digital world 2014, 2017 organized by the E-Learning center at An- Najah National University with 1200 attendees.

She has been granted by Sloan Consortium to participate in an online leadership program in 2013, as the first scholar from the Middle East.

Dr. Saida Affouneh has worked in three different universities where two of them areconventionaluniversities, while the third is an open one.The experience ofopen and traditional education have given Saida a variety of experience and enabled her to understand the different a aspects of distance learning

“Go with the horse that pulls” An Emerging model of e-learning in Palestine: The Case of An-Najah National University.

The Reality of Education System in Palestine After 1994. An-Najah National University Journal.

Towards A Better Quality of Education in Palestine. A book under publication (2011-2012).

Students Attitudes Towars E-Learning in Al-Quds Open University. Al-Quds Open University Journal, 2010.

" An Emerging Model of e-Learning in Palestine: The Case of An-Najah National University ". Paper to ICLTDW 2014 Confrence.