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The UP Open University, through the initiative of the Information Office, conducted a Business Writing Workshop on 13-14 June 2017. The workshop was organized to enhance the skills of employees in writing effective correspondences, memos, emails and other communication collateral related to the conduct of their work at the university. Dr. Paz H. Diaz, Communications Expert, and Former Dean of the UPOU Faculty of Management and Development Studies, was the resource person for the two-day event held at the UPOU Centennial Center for Digital Learning Auditorium. Dr. Diaz started with an overview of what effective communication is and the skills [...]

UP Open University (UPOU) is offering a short-term fellowship program to three (3) faculty and students from different universities in the Philippines and abroad to provide a platform for capacity building and establishment of sustainable partnerships as well as fostering knowledge exchange on Open and Distance e-Learning (ODeL). This fellowship will carry the theme "ASEAN Education in the Era of Openness" and will run from 01 to 30 November 2017. UPOU will cover the fellows' accommodation, living expense allowance, transportation to and from the airport and within the campus. UPOU will also provide the fellow with office space with telephone [...]

The three researches published in the fifth volume of UP Open University (UPOU) Faculty of Management and Development Studies (FMDS) eJournal, Journal of Management and Development Studies (JMDS), were featured at the FMDS Research Forum on 23 May 2017 at the Audiovisual Room of UPOU in Los Baños, Laguna. These were the three of the nine researches that made it to publication after a series of top-notch peer-review process. Dr. Primo Garcia, Dean of FMDS, banked on the importance of disseminating research results as part of UPOU's tripartite function. "Research is important in solving a lot of problems in the [...]

The UP Open University (UPOU) has earmarked 20 June 2017, University of the Philippines' (UP')109th Founding Anniversary, to celebrate World Wood Day 2017. The UPOU Faculty of Management and Development Studies (FMDS) is spearheading this celebration with the UPOU Cultural Committee, in cooperation with the International Wood Culture Society (IWCS), with funding from the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCAA). Following the World Wood Day 2017's theme, "Roots (Ugat)," the celebration will be done in three parts – a tree-planting activity to start the day at 8am; the wood carving competition by carvers from Paete, Laguna, Betis and [...]

(In cooperation with the National Commission on Culture and the Arts) "Buen ebanistas" (good carvers) has been the reputation Of our Filipino craftsmen/women, generation after generation The craft is more than 2,000 years old Worldwide their works are good as gold Witness the masterpieces of our talented artists As they vie for top honors, who will score the highest? Will the winner come from Laguna's Paete; Ifugao's Hungduan Betis and Guagua in Pampanga or the Palaw'an of Palawan? Unite with the World Wood Day celebration Value our "ROOTS," our origin as a nation Boost the confidence of our gifted kinsfolk [...]

Dr. Melinda dela Pena. Bandalaria, Chancellor of the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU), and Dr. Shyue-Ling Wang, President the National University of Kaoshiung (NUK) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on 18 May 2017 in NUK Campus, Kaoshiung, Taiwan. The partnership between the two universities shall include collaborative programs on faculty exchange, degree or course development for overseas Filipino workers (OFW), NUK as UPOU testing/learning center in Taiwan, development and offering of massive open online courses (MOOCs), resource persons/training program on business analytics, among others. Officials from UPOU and NUK present during the agreement signing were Dr. Jean [...]

The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU), led by Chancellor Melinda dela Pena Bandalaria, held an orientation on open and distance eLearning (ODeL) and about UPOU with overseas Filipino workers (OFW) in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on 16 May 2017. After the orientation, the UPOU team also held discussions with OFWs regarding specific concerns about studying through ODeL. The event, organized by Ms. Irenne Ng of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO), was participated in by Filipino engineers and operators. Ms. Ng said that MECO wants to help OFWs pursue higher studies for their career advancement in Kaohsiung. Being a [...]