Assistant Professor
2021 - PhD in E-Research and Technology Enhanced Learning, University of Lancaster, UK.
2006 - MEd in Educational Technology, University of Manchester, UK.
1999 - DELTA (Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults), University of Cambridge, UK.
1995 - CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults), University of Cambridge, UK.
Bio
Michael has been a teacher, teacher trainer, examiner, examiner trainer and project manager in South Korea, Hong Kong, and the United Arab Emirates. He has over 26 years of teaching experience in higher and adult education, including online synchronous teaching and blended learning. He holds a PhD in E-Research and Technology Enhanced Learning and an MEd in Educational Technology. Michael has been at Zayed University for 13 years and has worked in four different colleges, including University College and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. He is currently teaching the Expressive Clarity course in CIS. His research interests are related to Technology-Enhanced Learning (blended learning, digital agency, self-regulation, digital vocabulary learning) and Corpus Linguistics (use of formulaic language and collocations in students’ writing).
Office
Dubai Academic City, E-L2-003
Phone:
+971 4 402 1609
Email:
Michael.Bowles@zu.ac.aeTeaching Areas
Academic Writing, Creative and Critical Thinking, Strategic Learning and Study Skills, English for General Academic Purposes, English for Specific Academic Purposes
Research and Professional Activities
Al-Sharef, A., & Bowles, M. (2022). Lexical collocations in Arabic-English bilinguals’ writing across two proficiency levels. In D. Palfreyman & N. Habash (Eds.), Bilingual Writers and Corpus Analysis. Routledge.
Bowles, M., & Thornquist, E. (2021). From face-to-face to cyberspace to postdigital: Takeaways from emergency online teaching of professional English writing skills in higher education. In Proceedings of the International Conference of Education, Research, and Innovation (ICERI 2021), Online, November 2021, 7005-7014. http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2021.1583
Eppard, J., Kaviani, A., Bowles, M., & Johnson, J. (2021). EdTech Culturation: Integrating A Culturally Relevant Pedagogy into Educational Technology. Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 19(6), 516-530. https://doi.org/10.34190/ejel.19.6.2065
Bowles, M. (2018). The development of a framework for effective gamification in mobile assisted vocabulary learning (MAVL). In Proceedings of the International Conference of Education, Research, and Innovation (ICERI 2018), Sevilla, Spain, November 2018, 6872-6879. http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2018
