Dr. Bandalaria (3rd from left) wit the invited speakers from ASEAN-member countries. (Shared from Dr. Mel Bandalaria’s Facebook Page) The University of the Philippines Open University Chancellor, Dr. Melinda dela Peña Bandalaria, was in Thailand for an experts’ meeting organized by the Thailand Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation through its Thailand Cyber University (TCU) Project. Titled “ASEAN Perspectives on Empowering MOOCs for Sustainable Lifelong Learning,” the hybrid event was held on 26-27 January 2023 at the Asia Hotel in Ratchathewi, Bangkok.  In Dr. Bandalaria’s presentation titled “Transforming Higher Education Through MOOC: Discourses that Shaped [...]

The Faculty of Management and Development Studies (FMDS) of the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) conducted a Feeding MinDS workshop on the basics of videography on 3 February 2023, 2:00 – 4:00 PM, at the UPOU Audio-Visual Room (AVR) and via Zoom. Asst. Prof. Luisa Gelisan, Director of the UPOU Multimedia Center (MC), and Ms. Ann Kristine Medina, former MC administrative staff member and multimedia developer and producer were the resource persons during the workshop. Asst. Prof. Gelisan showed the different camera movements, shots, and shooting techniques, while Ms. Medina discussed the [...]

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 [...]