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The UP Open University (UPOU) Multimedia Center (MC) conducted a training program for UPOU employees entitled "TightVNC: Remote Control of Slideshow and Zoom for Hybrid Events.”  The training was held on 31 January 2023 at the UPOU Audio Visual Room. The training started with the welcome remarks of Asst. Prof. Luisa Gelisan, Director of UPOU Multimedia Center. She explained the purpose of the training is to equip UPOU personnel, who assist in the presentation of slide shows and those who assist in Zoom management in hybrid events, with proper and appropriate skills.  She also expressed her gratitude to the [...]

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 [...]

“This is a milestone that we are celebrating here. We are here where everything started. [I] remember we started with a Round Table Discussion in Baguio City last 2019, our first Technical Working Group meeting happened here in Benguet State University in 2020, and now we are back here to make it official by signing the Memorandum of Agreement.” This is what University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) Chancellor, Dr. Melinda dela Peña Bandalaria, stated as she highlighted how the Consortium of Open and Distance Education Providers in the Philippines (CODEPP) was formalized in the very place where it [...]

Participants during the last synchronous session of the QASAR Writeshop. The UPOU Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (UPOU OVCAA), through its Quality Assurance Team, supervised the overall conduct of the Quality Assurance through Self-Assessment Report (QASAR) Writeshop from 15 August until 31 December 2022.  The writeshop was designed to help the people behind the programs to become familiarized with the ASEAN University Network-Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) framework for the purpose of completing the program’s Self-Assessment Report (SAR). Implemented through the QASAR course site and a series of synchronous sessions, the writeshop was participated by the [...]

The UPOU Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (OVCAA), through the  coordinated efforts of the Office of Academic Support and Instructional Services (OASIS), the Multimedia Center (MC) and ICT Development Office (ICTDO), organized a hybrid Seminar-Workshop on Introduction to Online Course Development and Facilitation for its new faculty members, affiliates, and lecturers on 24-25 January 2023. The two-day seminar-workshop aimed to introduce faculty members on the principles and approaches of online teaching and learning in the context of an open university. The training adopted a flipped-classroom approach wherein the content was delivered online via https://workspace.upou.edu.ph and the application [...]

Two UPOU Faculty of Education (FEd) students bagged the grand prizes in the University of the Philippines (UP) System-wide gamification activity, "The Great InfoHunt 2022." Ms. Fria Shayne Nuñez, BES student, won the Apple iPad and Ms. Rich-Anne Dayo, MSSE student, won the Lenovo laptop. The Great InfoHunt 2022 is the first library gamification activity of the University Library Diliman for all UP students. As we adapt to the ever-changing learning modalities of library users, the University Library Diliman intended to introduce a modern take on promoting its resources and services through a scavenger-hunt kind of library orientation. The InfoHunt [...]