The UPOU community deeply mourns the loss of its former Chancellor, Dr. Felix Librero. Dr. Librero died Tuesday, 16 March 2021. He served as Chancellor of UPOU from 2001 to 2007. Graphics by Lovelyn Petrasanta Video edited by Christian Guevarra #UPOpenUniversity
The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) will hold its Virtual Congress on 28-29 April 2021 with the theme “Transforming Southeast Asian Education, Science and Culture in the Digital Age.” The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) is a supporting partner for the event, along with other institutions around the world. The SEAMEO Congress 2021 serves as a platform for policymakers, teachers, researchers, and educators to exchange the effective policy, fruitful teaching experience and share new learning paradigms and practices in the digital age including the education disruptions brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. The SEAMEO Congress 2021 is [...]
The Philippine Health Research Ethics Board (PHREB), a national policy making body in health research ethics in the country, created under DOST Special Order No. 091 s. 2006, which ensures adherence to the universal ethical principles for the protection and promotion of the dignity of health research participants hosted an online awarding of Accreditation Certificate during the 39th Anniversary of DOST-Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD) on 17 March 2021 via Zoom Webinar and Facebook Live, with the theme, “Strategic R&D Partnership for Global Health”. The celebration aims to highlight the significance and relevance especially nowadays of promulgating [...]
The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) is set to join the Solve Climate By 2030 campaign, a global dialogue to climate solutions. This campaign is organized by The Center for Environmental Policy at Bard College together with the UPOU and more than 100 other universities and schools from around 50 countries. Simultaneous webinars all over the world will be used as springboards for discussing climate solutions in the local context especially by climate-concerned universities and schools across disciplines. One of these is a Solve Climate By 2030 webinar organized by the Master of Environment and Natural Resources Management [...]
The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU), as a member and the current President of the Los Baños Science Community Foundation Inc. (LBSCFI), is one with the science community in celebrating its 20th Anniversary this March. The anniversary carries the theme “Los Banos Science Community: Coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic.” In celebration of this, a webinar titled “Addressing the COVID-19 Infodemic: Straight from the Experts” will be held on 30 March 2021 via Zoom and live via the LBSCFI Facebook Page. Dr. Melinda dela Peña Bandalaria, UPOU Chancellor, will deliver the welcome remarks as President of the organization. Through [...]
“These disasters have called me to become more human and humane and in doing so, I was able to share my time and skills to people and organizations and help them in any way I can, on a voluntary basis, in the middle of performing my roles as student, wife, and mother. ” Finaflor Taylan Despite the disasters that struck her own hometown, and the worldwide pandemic that forced a shift in our daily lives, Assistant Professor Finaflor Taylan, a faculty member of the Faculty of Management and Development Studies (FMDS), UP Open University (UPOU) and is currently a [...]
In response to the current challenges, the Ugnayan ng Pahinungód of the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) in partnership with Concentrix, a leading global provider of customer experience (CX) solutions and technology and the largest private employer in the Philippines, will be launching a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) titled "Introductory Course on Contact Center Services". This course focuses on developing effective online communication skills that will provide competitive skills and knowledge for ICT-enabled and contact services-related jobs. This academe-industry partnership aims to capacitate various sectors such as persons with disabilities (PWDs), out-of-school youth (OSY), indigenous people (IPs), [...]
In celebration of Women’s Month this March 2021, the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) Faculty of Management and Development Studies Research and Publication Committee (FMDS RPC) in partnership with the UPOU Office of Gender Concerns (OGC) will be holding the 2021 International Research Forum on Gender and Development with the theme “WE Make CHANGE Work for Women: Juana Laban sa Pandemya: Kaya!” on 17 March 2021, 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM PST (Philippine Standard Time). Asst. Prof. Skånberg Dahlstedt from the Stockholm University of the Arts and University of Gothenburg will serve as the keynote speaker. The presentations [...]
The UPOU Faculty of Education invites you to the 11th EDUkussion: Research Journeys Part 2. This will be held on Thursday, 18 March 2021, 10:00 AM. Interested participants may email [email protected]. #UPOpenUniversity
The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) Faculty of Education (FEd) conducted the 10th EDUkussion Forum on Research Journeys last 28 January 2021 via Zoom. With the topic, “Online Convoes on the Birth of Research (Part I),” the webinar invited FEd students and program chairs from the Graduate Certificate/Master of Distance Education (GC/MDE), Diploma/Master of Arts in Literacy and Language Education (D/MLLE), and Diploma/Master of Arts in Social Studies Education (D/MSSE) programs as well as graduate students from other UPOU programs and tertiary level institutions. Research Journeys was designed to complement ongoing formal course activities related to research and special problems in FEd’s MA programs. To kick off [...]
