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At the UP Open University (UPOU) podcast series Edu-Hack: Navigating a Turbulent Educational Landscape, we’ve listened to resource speakers talk about their experiences in higher education. The next episodes of the Edu-Hack podcast will be dedicated to education for K-12.  The eight episode will be held on 30 July 2020 on the topic “K12 Teacher Journeys: Being and Becoming Adaptable Parents and Teachers.” Since the Department of Education (DepEd) has confirmed that the school year will definitely start this August 2020, most of us who have school-aged children find ourselves in a limbo on how to effectively become both parents [...]

The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) has collaborated with the Department of Information and Communication Technology (DICT) for the seventh episode of the “Edu-Hack: Navigating a Turbulent Educational Landscape.” This time around, the topic will focus on “Offline Technologies for Remote Teaching and Learning.”  Educators and administrators from higher education institutions and the Department of Education, as well as students and parents are expected to benefit from this session. The panel members for this episode are faculty members of UPOU, namely, Dr. Ria Mae Borromeo, Director of the UPOU ICT Development Office; Asst. Prof.  Roel Cantada, Program Chair [...]

The Faculty of Management and Development Studies (FMDS) and the Master of Arts in Nursing (MAN) Program organized the Let’s Talk It Over webinar titled “Who Takes Care of the Caregivers? The COVID-19 Experience” on 11 June 2020 to take a closer look at the situations of nurses during this pandemic and their experience as COVID-19 patients and survivors. The COVID-19 Experience Ms. Angelique Rosete, a gyne-oncology and trophoblastic nurse at the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital, Mr. John Alex Melencio, a charge nurse in Royal Brompton Hospital, United Kingdom. shared their experiences as nurses who take care of [...]

Are we really going online? This is a question raised due to the unprecedented impact of the COViD 19 pandemic to the education sector. The sudden shift of institutions that once offered traditional, face-to-face learning are now scrambling to learn the ropes of Online Learning. The Master of Public Management (MPM) Program  of the University of the Philippine Open University’s (UPOU) Faculty of Management and Development Studies (FMDS) in partnership with the Association of Schools of Public Administration in the Philippines (ASPAP), Inc., organized a three-part webinar series to contextualize online learning in the Philippines, [...]

The next episode of “Edu-Hack: Navigating  a Turbulent Educational Landscape”  targets students who will be enrolling this academic year, with the gloom of the pandemic on their shoulders. “What will it be like to study for a university degree during a pandemic?” is the theme for the next episode. It will feature Lenard D. Visaya, UP Los Banos Bachelor of Science in Agriculture student; Alyanna Asumen, UPOU Bachelor of Arts in Multimedia Studies (BAMS) student; Victor Sison, UPOU BAMS and Master of Distance Education Alumnus; and Dr. Dinah Palmera Nadera, UP Diliman Health Service Resident Psychiatrist and former UPOU [...]

The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) is mandated under the Open Distance Learning Act (RA 10650) to help capacitate open distance learning teachers and practitioners through capacity building and professionalization programs. With the global health crisis that disrupted the education system of the country, higher education institutions (HEIs) and basic education institutions alike have been seeking help from UPOU in transitioning to the new normal of education. To properly provide a more strategic response and assistance to the numerous institutions seeking help in transitioning and migrating to a flexible learning mode, UPOU created a response system which features [...]

The UP Open University (UPOU) Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (OVCAA), in collaboration with the UPOU Faculty of Education conducted the fourth webinar on Research Conversations 2020: Futures Research Series with Dr. Federico Lauro as the resource speaker. Dr. Lauro, an Associate Professor of the Asian School of the Environment and the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering of Nanyang Technological University, gave a talk on the use of “Citizen Science” as a research approach. The webinar was held on 30 June 2020 (Tuesday), 9:00 to 11:00 AM and was participated in by viewers from national [...]

The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) Chancellor, Dr. Melinda dela Pena Bandalaria, served as lecturer for Bulacan State University’s (BulSU) webinar with the theme, “EDUK-KAKAIBA: Guro, Alamin Mo Na” held on 25 June 2020.  The crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic brought has led to many educational institutions deciding to adapt a more flexible mode of learning, which will enable them to cater to the needs of their students. In adhering firmly to Bulacan State University’s vision of becoming a progressive knowledge-generating institution, one measure it crafted to cope with the crisis was to conduct training programs to equip [...]

University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) Chancellor, Dr. Melinda dela Pena Bandalaria, delivered a Keynote Speech for the “International Online Conference on Future Trends in E-Learning and Collaborative Working” organized by the Virtual University of Pakistan (VUP). The conference was held on 16-17 June 2020. Dr. Bandalaria’s topic was titled “Teaching, Learning and Working in the time of COVID-19 and Beyond:  Towards Normalizing the New Normal.”  Other keynote speakers for the online conference were Prof. Dr. Naveed A. Malik, Founding Rector, VUP, and Special Advisor for Technology and Innovation, Commonwealth of Learning Canada; Prof. Rory MacGreal, UNESCO/ICDE Chair in [...]