Michael Rowe, BSc, MSc (Physiotherapy)

Physiotherapy educator, University of the Western Cape
Cape Town, South Africa

Research field: Education - Medical Education
I'm interested in the use of social media and other emerging technologies to improve teaching and learning practice in undergraduate physiotherapy education.

Publications

Journal Article (6)
- Michael Rowe, Jose Frantz, Vivienne Bozalek (2012) Physiotherapy Students’ Use of Online Technology as part of their Learning Practices: A Case Study, 29-34. In South African Journal of Physiotherapy 68 (1).
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- Michael Rowe, Jose Frantz, Vivienne Bozalek (2012) The role of blended learning in the clinical education of healthcare students: A systematic review, e1-e6. In Medical Teacher 34 (4).
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- Jose M Frantz, Anthea Rhoda, Michael Rowe et al. (2010) Mentoring and coaching in promoting publications in the Department of Physiotherapy at a local university in South Africa, 1-7. In South African Journal of Physiotherapy 66 (2).
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- Michael Rowe (2009) Knowledge and attitudes regarding the use of social software in a physiotherapy department, 1-7. In Journal of Community and Health Sciences 4 (1).
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- Michael Rowe (2009) The use of information and communication technology by South African physiotherapy students, 32-37. In South African Journal of Physiotherapy 65 (3).
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- Michael Rowe (2008) Information and Communication Technology in Health: a review of the literature, 68-77. In Journal of Community and Health Sciences 3 (1).
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Awards and Grants

Jun 2010

University of the Western Cape project funding - to assist with PhD research.
Nov 2009

Mellon Grant - to buy out teaching time to enable me to focus on my PhD.
Jul 2009

Innovations in Teaching and Learning - for 2 small projects run within our department to evaluate th
Mar 2009

National Research Foundation bursary - to cover additional expenses associated with research e.g. co

Biographical Information

Graduated from the University of the Western Cape with an undergraduate degree in 2001. Spent about 5 years moving between England, Ireland and California before coming back to Cape Town. During that period I also got my Masters degree, looking at the use of information and communication among South African physiotherapy students.

I'm currently registered for a PhD, the progress of which I host on a publicly accessible wiki at http://www.mrowe.co.za/doku.php/phd_progress. I blog at http://www.mrowe.co.za/blog, which I use primarily as a means of reflection for the things that interest me around technology in education.