UPOU’s Sustainable Institution Building for Open Learning (SIBOL) program under the European Union-funded “Advancing Equity and Access to Higher Education through Open and Distance Learning” or BUKA project, hosted a forum on Technology-enhanced Teaching and Learning in Higher Education on 7 February 2023 at the CCDL Building at the UPOU headquarters in Los Baños, Laguna.  Resource persons from the BUKA partner institutions discussed macro trends, institutional cases, and initiatives for improving higher education through blended, open and online learning, in particular use of learning analytics to support learners, AI (artificial intelligence)-powered technologies and practices, offline and low technology options [...]

A webinar on how to effectively handle stress in the workplace for UP Open University (UPOU) employees was organized by the Information and Communication Technology Development Office (ICTDO) on the 19th of  January, 2023. This was also made possible by the assistance given by the Office of Public Affairs (OPA) and the Multimedia Center (MC). The one-hour webinar was conducted by Ms. Cristine Lae C. Erasga, a Senior Office Associate at the ICTDO, who is also a registered psychometrician and a Master of Science in Psychology graduate. She tackled how to manage pressures that may cause stress in the [...]

Five faculty members and researchers represented the University of the Philippines Open University  (UPOU) in the World Learning Labs Symposium (WoLL) 2023 held at the Kyoto University of Foreign Studies (KUFS) on 27-28 January 2023. The event brought together industry professionals and academics to discuss real-world case studies and contexts of post-pandemic learning environments. Refereed scholarly papers from the symposium will be published in a special edition of the International Journal in Information Technology in Governance, Education and Business (IJITGEB).  The symposium was chaired and hosted by Professor Eric Hawkinson, who also conducted a three-hour immersive learning workshop on [...]

“This is a milestone that we are celebrating here. We are here where everything started. [I] remember we started with a Round Table Discussion in Baguio City last 2019, our first Technical Working Group meeting happened here in Benguet State University in 2020, and now we are back here to make it official by signing the Memorandum of Agreement.” This is what University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) Chancellor, Dr. Melinda dela Peña Bandalaria, stated as she highlighted how the Consortium of Open and Distance Education Providers in the Philippines (CODEPP) was formalized in the very place where it [...]

Participants during the last synchronous session of the QASAR Writeshop. The UPOU Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (UPOU OVCAA), through its Quality Assurance Team, supervised the overall conduct of the Quality Assurance through Self-Assessment Report (QASAR) Writeshop from 15 August until 31 December 2022.  The writeshop was designed to help the people behind the programs to become familiarized with the ASEAN University Network-Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) framework for the purpose of completing the program’s Self-Assessment Report (SAR). Implemented through the QASAR course site and a series of synchronous sessions, the writeshop was participated by the [...]