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Four special sessions pertaining to different concepts evolving in Open and Distance eLearning were conducted during the 5th National Conference in Open and Distance eLearning held at Crowne Plaza Manila last 22-23 November 2017. Dr. Melinda F. Lumanta, University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Professor at the Faculty of Information and Communication Studies (FICS), led one of the special sessions during the second day of the conference entitled, "Towards Understanding, Conceptualizing and Measuring Openness in Education". "This special session looks at openness through a systems perspective where the educational institution seen as the [...]

Data Privacy Act Pre-Conference Workshop participants discuss the components needed in creating consent forms for both their students and staff during the group workshop. The Faculty of Management and Development Studies (FMDS) of UP Open University (UPOU) organized a Pre-Conference Workshop on Data Privacy Act on 22 November 2017 during the 5th National Conference on Open and Distance eLearning (NCODeL) at the Crowne Plaza Manila Galleria, Metro Manila, Philippines. Atty. Emerson S. Bañez, a lawyer from the Disini and Disini Law Office, served as the Resource Speaker on Data Privacy Act in Education. "The law does not require that you [...]

The Faculty of Education (FED) of the UP Open University (UPOU) organized a pre-conference workshop on Instructional Design in Open and Distance eLearning (ODeL) on 22 November 2017 during the 5th National Conference on Open and Distance eLearning (NCODeL). The pre-conference workshop consisted of a lecture, writeshop, and presentation of outputs by the participants. Asst. Prof. Charisse T. Reyes facilitated the lecture and served as the workshop's overall facilitator. The lecture consisted of four parts: planning the course modules; selecting the online learning resources; designing learning activities in ODeL; and writing the study guide. Some essential topics that were discussed [...]

On November 22, 2017, the Faculty of Education conducted a workshop on course module development in ODeL during the 5th National Conference on Open and Distance eLearning (NCODeL) 2017. The workshop aimed at helping other higher education institutions understand and experience the process of module development for online learning modality. Assistant Professor Charisse T. Reyes spearheaded the workshop with the support of the other members of the Faculty who served as co-facilitators of the program. The workshop served as one of the pre-conference activities of NCODeL 2017, which focuses on "Philippine Education in the Age of Openness" and was held [...]

At the 5th National Conference on Open and Distance eLearning (NCODeL), the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU), through its Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (OVCAA), launched the book "Assessment Praxis in Open and Distance eLearning: Thoughts and Practices in UPOU". The book editors, Dr. Melinda F. Lumanta, UPOU Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and Dr. Liza C. Carascal, Executive Director of the UPOU Foundation, Inc. (UPOUFI) and Principal of the UP Rural High School, proudly presented the book during the conference dinner held at the Crowne Plaza Manila Galleria on 22 November 2017. This fifth [...]

"I always define 'leading' as 'enabling'... When we talk of leading, it means to say that we are also enabling -- and that's the only time we can say that we are the leader in this field of distance education," said University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) Chancellor Melinda dela Peña Bandalaria during the exploratory meeting in Ifugao State University (IFSU) on 14 November 2017. Chancellor Bandalaria, along with Asst. Prof. Myra Almodiel and Ms. Cien Angela Baurile, met with the faculty and staff members of IFSU - College of Open Distance Education and Transnational Education (CODETE) as part [...]