Browsing Scholarship of Teaching and Learning by Author "Rowe, Michael"
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Beyond knowledge and skills: the use of a Delphi study to develop a technology-mediated teaching strategy
Rowe, Michael; Frantz, Jose M.; Bozalek, Vivienne (BioMed Central, 2013)Background: While there is evidence to suggest that teaching practices in clinical education should include activities that more accurately reflect the real world, many educators base their teaching on transmission models ... -
Beyond the lecture: Teaching for professional development
Rowe, Michael (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2016)BACKGROUND. Clinical educators are being challenged to graduate students who can adapt to complex situations. Evidence suggests that one must go beyond teaching students what to know and what to do, and help them learn ... -
The case studies: authentic learning
Herrington, Jan; Mitchell, Veronica; Rowe, Michael; Titus, Simone (Routledge, 2014)Moving from theory to practice in higher education is deeply challenging. While exploring pedagogical models in the literature may lead to tacit understanding of general principles, actually implementing these principles ... -
A critical pedagogy for online learning in physiotherapy education
Rowe, Michael (Cappelen Damm Akademisk, 2018)In order to graduate physiotherapy students who are able to thrive in increasingly complex health systems, professional educators must move away from instrumental, positivist ideologies that disempower both students and ... -
Developing graduate attributes in an open online course
Rowe, Michael (Wiley, 2016)In an increasingly connected world where solving complex problems is not possible by solitary experts, educators and learners need opportunities to develop ways of thinking that allow them to engage with the dynamic and ... -
Ethical considerations in using student data in an era of ‘big data’
Prinsloo, Paul; Rowe, Michael (2015)Learning with technology enables the collection of data on students at a level unprecedented in face-to-face tuition and paper-based academic administration. Universities see the advantage in tracking students’ engagement ... -
"Operating at the limit of what was possible": A case study of facilitator experiences in an open online course
Rowe, Michael (James Nicholas Publishers, 2018)The experiences of course facilitators in connectivist-type MOOCs are poorly reported. Yet there is evidence that the values and beliefs of facilitators have an important impact on the learning experiences of participants, ... -
Ownership and attitudes towards technology use in physiotherapy students from seven countries
Vissers, Dirk; Rowe, Michael; Taeymans, Jan; Shofiqul Islam, Md. (Elsevier, 2017)PURPOSE: To assess differences in prerequisites to blended learning such as technology use and Internet access in an international sample of physiotherapy students from Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Luxembourg, Sudan, ... -
Physiotherapy Students’ Use of Online Technology as part of their Learning Practices: A Case Study
Rowe, Michael; Frantz, Jose M.; Bozalek, Vivienne (Aosis, 2012)The relevance of non-technical skills have long been acknowledged as important components of clinical learning, and there is evidence that integrating technology can facilitate their development by encouraging reflection, ... -
Randomised controlled trials in educational research: Ontological and epistemological limitations
Rowe, Michael; Oltmann, C. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2016)Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are a valued research method in evidence-based practice in medical and clinical settings because they are associated with a particular ontological and epistemological perspective that ... -
The role of blended learning in clinical education: A systematic review
Rowe, Michael; Frantz, Jose M.; Bozalek, Vivienne (Association for Medical Education in Europe, 2012)BACKGROUND: Developing practice knowledge in healthcare is a complex process that is difficult to teach. Clinical education exposes students to authentic learning situations, but students also need epistemological access ... -
Structured feedback on students’ concept maps: the proverbial path to learning?
Joseph, Conran; Conradsson, David; Nilsson Wikmar, Lena; Rowe, Michael (BMC, 2017)BACKGROUND: Good conceptual knowledge is an essential requirement for health professions students, in that they are required to apply concepts learned in the classroom to a variety of different contexts. However, the use ... -
Structured feedback on students’ concept maps: the proverbial path to learning?
Rowe, Michael (BMC, 2017)Good conceptual knowledge is an essential requirement for health professions students, in that they are required to apply concepts learned in the classroom to a variety of different contexts. However, the use of traditional ... -
Student and staff perceptions and experiences of the introduction of Objective Structured Practical Examinations: a pilot study
Frantz, Jose M.; Rowe, Michael; Hess, Danelle; Rhoda, Anthea; Sauls, Hess; Wegner, Liezel (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2013)Background. The Objective Structured Practical Examination (OSPE) is widely recognised as one of the more objective methods of assessing practical skills in healthcare programmes, including undergraduate physiotherapy ... -
Technology-mediated learning in physiotherapy education: the social construction of practice knowledge.
Frantz, Jose M.; Rowe, Michael (Aosis Publishing, 2013)Clinical practice is complex, requiring practitioners to interpret a diverse range of inter-related variables in order to make clinical decisions as part of patient management. This process is often intuitive and therefore ... -
The use of a wiki to facilitate collaborative learning in a South African physiotherapy department
Rowe, Michael (South African Society of Physiotherapy, 2012)The dominant form of teaching in higher education remains the lecture, even though evidence suggests that it alone is inadequate to facilitate the development of the higher order thinking skills required in clinical practice. ... -
The use of assisted performance within an online social network to develop reflective reasoning in undergraduate physiotherapy students
Rowe, Michael (Informa Healthcare, 2012)Background: The development of practice knowledge is an important component of clinical education and reflective reasoning is known to play a role in its development. Online social networks may have some potential for ... -
Using Google Drive to facilitate a blended approach to authentic learning
Rowe, Michael; Bozalek, Vivienne; Frantz, Jose M. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)While technology has the potential to create opportunities for transformative learning in higher education, it is often used to merely reinforce didactic teaching that aims to control access to expert knowledge. Instead, ...