University of the Philippines (UP) Professor Emeritus and University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) former Chancellor, Grace Javier Alfonso, won the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) Prize for Lifelong Learning 2021. This was announced at the recently concluded ICDE Virtual Global Conference Week 2021 held on 25 – 29 October 2021.
Dr. Alfonso received the award in recognition for her “lifelong contribution to the field of open, flexible and distance learning.” She has long been involved in open and distance elearning. She took her first administrative duty at UPOU as the Dean of the School for Distance Education in Diliman. In 1999, she became the Director of the UPOU’s Audio-Visual Teaching and Learning Laboratory (AVTELL). She also served as the Director of the UPOU Multimedia Center in 2004. In 2007, she started the first of her three terms as the third Chancellor of UPOU.
The ICDE is the leading, global membership organisation that works towards bringing accessible, quality education to all through online, open and distance learning. It was founded in 1938 in Canada as the International Council for Correspondence Education and currently has members from over 60 countries worldwide.
For more information regarding ICDE Virtual Global Conference Week 2021, you may visit its website at https://www.icde.org/virtual-global-conference-week.
Written by Jaime P. Guimbao
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