The University of the Philippine Open University (UPOU) partners with Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University (HMBSU) and the Benchmarking Framework for Online, Open, Smart, and Technology-Enhanced Higher Education in organizing the webinar titled “Sharing Best Practices of Asian Universities.” This initiative is in partnership with the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) to be held on 10 November 2022, 3:00 PM (Manila Time) and 11:00 AM (Dubai Time).  Dr. Melinda dela Peña Bandalaria, UPOU Chancellor, will be delivering the welcome address.  Dr. Primo Garcia, UPOU Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, on the other hand, will serve [...]

The 8th episode of the Revitalizing Socioecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS) Webinar Series titled "Assessment of Ifugao Rice Terraces, a Satoyama Landscape" was held on 27 October 2022 via Zoom.   Ms. Eulalie D. Dulnuan, Supervising Administrative Officer of the National Museum of the Philippines, was the guest speaker.  Dr. Romeo A. Gomez, Jr., Professor of Ecology and Environmental Science of Benguet State University, served as the guest discussant.  Ms. Anne Frances Buhay from the Faculty of Management and Development Studies (FMDS) of the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) hosted the virtual event. Ms. Dulnuan clarified [...]

The UP Open University Multimedia Center (UPOU MC) conducted a 2-day training-workshop titled “Graphics Editing Using Photopea”. The workshop, a hybrid event, was held on 18 and 25 October 2022 at the Audio-visual Room, UPOU in Los Baños, Laguna,  and broadcasted simultaneously via Zoom.  Ms. Ann Kristine Medina, a UPOU MC administrative staff member and multimedia developer/producer, served as trainer/resource person. Forty-eight individuals, consisting of UPOU faculty, REPS, research assistants, administrative staff members, and students/student assistants participated in the training.  The training aimed to capacitate participants on how to use Photopea (https://www.photopea.com/), a free graphic editing software [...]

The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) will be holding its 26th Commencement Exercises on 10 December 2022, 5:00 p.m. at the UPOU Oblation Plaza with the theme “​​University of the Future: Reimaginations, Reconfigurations, Realizations.”  A total of 534 graduates are expected to attend the Commencement Exercises. Of the 534 graduates, 99 are from the three undergraduate programs; 35 are from the two graduate certificate programs; 216 are from the 12 graduate diploma programs; 165 are from the 10 master’s programs; and, 19 graduates are from the two doctoral programs of UPOU. The Commencement speaker for this year [...]

In commemoration of the Acad Union Month this October 2022, the All UP Academic Employees Union - Los Banos and Open University (AUPAEU-LB and OU) Chapters  collaborated to hold the "Ang Guro at Ang Bayan Faculty Forum". The hybrid event was conducted last 17 October 2022, from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM at the UPOU Audio-Visual Room, and via Zoom and Facebook Live.  Ang Guro at Ang Bayan Faculty Forum is represented by the University’s regular faculty members, Research, Extension, and Professional Staff (REPS) with teaching load, lecturers, teaching assistants, teaching fellows, and professor emeriti of UPLB and UPOU campuses.  [...]

In a segment in Radyo Pilipinas last 15 October 2022, University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) Office of Public Affairs (OPA) Director, Dr. Myra C. Almodiel, had the opportunity to promote the 7th National Conference on Open and Distance eLearning (NCODeL 2022) in an interview with Tess Ramirez.      This year’s conference will be held virtually on 23-25 November 2022. Dr. Almodiel explained that the NCODeL had been consistently conducted every two years by the UPOU since 1999, where different educational institutions share their ideas, experiences, and best practices in an online setting. The conference is open to administrators, [...]