User:Michael Rowe

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Name

Michael Rowe

About Me

I'm a physiotherapy educator based at a university in the Western Cape of South Africa. I'm interested in social media and other emerging technologies to facilitate enhanced teaching and learning practice in physiotherapy education. I graduated with a Masters degree in 2008, after looking at the use of information and communication technologies by South African physiotherapy students and universities.

I'm currently busy with my Doctoral research where I'm looking at undergraduate curriculum development in our department, moving to a blended learning approach using online technologies to enable communication and collaboration to better facilitate an engaged learning experience.

Education

• BSc Physiotherapy (2001).  University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
  

• MSc Physiotherapy (2008).  Thesis title: The use of information and communication technology to support physiotherapy students in South Africa.  University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
  

• PdD (currently registered).  Thesis title: An analysis of the undergraduate physiotherapy curriculum to identify a teaching module for development, implementation and evaluation of a blended learning approach, using emerging technologies.  University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

Professional Affiliations

Health Professions Council of South Africa

South African Society of Physiotherapy

Publications

Rowe, M. (2008). Information and communication technology in health: a review of the literature. Journal of Community and Health Sciences, 3(1):68-77

Rowe, M. (2009). Knowledge and attitudes regarding the use of social software in a physiotherapy department. Journal of Community and Health Sciences, 4(1):1-7

Rowe, M. (2009). The use of information and communication technology by physiotherapy students. South African Journal of Physiotherapy. Accepted but unpublished.

Conference presentations

Rowe, M. Collaborative knowledge construction using wikis. Abstract accepted for HELTASA conference, November 2009

Rowe, M. The use of blogging as a reflective tool in physiotherapy ethics. SAAHE conference, June 2009

Mitchell, V., Rowe, M. & Statham, S. Bringing human rights into focus in medical education. Workshop, SAAHE conference, June 2009

Rowe, M. The use of information and communication technology by South African physiotherapy students.  HESS conference, December 2008

Rowe, M. E-learning: an overview. Information and communication technology colloquium, September 2008

Rowe, M. The use of information and communication technology to support South African physiotherapy students (based on Masters study).  SAAHE conference, June 2008

Contact

• @michael_rowe - Twitter feed

• /usr/physio - personal blog on the use of technology in education