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With UPOU’s 25th year this 2020, various activities are in store for UPOU’s stakeholders and partners.  Off the Lip 2020 (OTLip20) will kick-off the year-long celebration. This is a two-day research event will be held on 24 to 25 January 2020 at the Centennial Center for Digital Learning (CCDL), UPOU, Los Baños, Laguna. The conference seeks to showcase radically multidisciplinary, multisectoral, and creative approaches to addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.  The goal of the conference is to bring together researchers from diverse disciplines (e.g., environmental scientists, human geographers, and cognitive scientists) and across sectors (government, industry, academia, and [...]

The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) will be celebrating its 25th Anniversary this 2020. A whole year of interesting and exciting activities awaits its constituents, partners and stakeholders.  Themed “Revolutionizing Disruptions for Excellence and Equity,” this celebration will focus on how UPOU’s pedagogy and technology disrupted and revolutionized education in the country and the region. The celebration will highlight the various disruptions in teaching and learning across various generations of distance education and how UPOU revolutionized disruptions for excellence and equity.  All stakeholders and partners who have been part of  UPOU for the last 25 years are invited [...]

Watch Chancellor Melinda dela Peña Bandalaria summarized the year 2019 as a year of reflection, inflection and reinvigoration for UPOU. #UPOpenUniversity

Dr. Maria Dalisay G. Maligalig and Dr. Jomar F. Rabajante, affiliate faculty members of the Faculty of Education (FEd), University of the Philippines Open University were named as the new Program Chairs of Diploma in Science Teaching (DST) and Diploma in Mathematics Teaching (DMT), respectively. DST and DMT were two of FEd’s post-baccalaureate diploma programs. Dr. Maligalig has been appointed as the new Diploma in Science Teaching (DST) Program Chair effective 1 August 2019. She started at UPOU in 2011 as an affiliate assistant professor and handled BIO 220 – Chemical Physiology in the PhD in Education program (Biology Education). [...]

Felino Castro V, Assistant Secretary for the National Broadband Backbone and Free Wifi/Internet Access in Public Spaces of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) will serve as a Plenary Speaker for the 6th National Conference on Open and Distance eLearning (NCODeL 2019). Asec. Castro will talk about Inclusivity, and Equity in Technology-Enhanced Learning. Asec. Castro has a Master’s Degree in Public Management from the Development Academy of the Philippines, and a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture degree from University of the Philippines Los Banos. Prior to his appointment with DICT, Asec. Castro served as the Director for the [...]

Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Director IV for the Office of Programs and Standards Development (OPSD), Dr. Cherrie Melanie Ancheta-Diego, shall serve as a Plenary Speaker for the 6th National Conference on Open and Distance eLearning (NCODeL 2019). Dr. Ancheta-Diego has a Doctor of Education (Educational Management) and Master of Public Administration degree from Mariano Marcos State University. Prior to her appointment with the CHED Central Office, she was the Director IV of the CHED Regional Office 1. As the Director IV of CHED-OPSD, she oversees the mandate of the office to be the primary in-charge of the enhancement of [...]

Dr. Grace Javier Alfonso, UP Professor Emeritus and Former Chancellor of the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) will be the Plenary Speaker in the first Plenary Session of the 6th National Conference on Open and Distance eLearning (NCODeL 2019). She will discuss about Equity Dimensions in Quality Assurance Frameworks. Dr. Alfonso earned her PhD in Communication, MA in the Humanities (Art History) and Bachelor of Fine Arts all from the University of the Philippines Diliman. She witnessed the evolution of distance learning in the Philippines from the birth of UPOU in 1995 when she was then the Dean [...]