Good news! The Consultation Subcommittee will continue to receive responses for the survey regarding the following matters: 1. The concerns and experiences of the students, 2. the value of a student council in addressing said concerns and enriching student life, and 3. the opinions of the student body regarding student councils and student elections in UPOU. You can answer the survey through this link: https://bit.ly/ProvCommSurvey #UPOpenUniversity
Together with the ASEAN University Network on Culture and the Arts (AUN-CA), National University of Singapore invites students from universities in the ASEAN countries, China, Japan, and Korea to submit up to 3 original short films on the theme of 'Slow Connection' to be presented in Asia Rising 2022: Short films from ASEAN Universities and Beyond. Selected films will be screened online between 1-9 April 2022. See photo for more details. For inquiries, please contact Mary Loh ([email protected]) #UPOpenUniversity
Calling all UP Open University students and alumni! You can still submit your entries for the Kwentong OU - Digital Video and Multimedia Festival. The deadline is extended to 1 February 2021, 23:59 (Philippine time). Share your Kwentong OU! And get the chance to win up to PhP20,000.00 For details visit: https://networks.upou.edu.ph/kwentongou #UPOpenUniversity
Certificate Course for Data Protection Officers UP Open University, UPOU Foundation Inc., and Digital Freedom Network team up to bring you the Certificate Course for Data Protection Officers. Course Description: The course is designed to train and certify Data Privacy Officers who will be tasked with designing, implementing, and overseeing the respective data privacy policies of their organizations, in compliance with the Data Privacy Act and its Implementing Rules. At the end of the course, participants will be taking a certification exam based on the course modules and lectures. A Certification shall be issued to participants who pass the exam. [...]
Assistant Professor Charisse T. Reyes, a regular faculty (on study leave) at the UPOU Faculty of Education and currently a third year PhD student at the School of Chemistry, Monash University, participated in 2021 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Pacifichem Congress 2021, conducted in Hawai’i, USA. This event was held both virtually and face to face on 16-20 December 2021, primarily hosted by The Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) with the representatives from the seven joint sponsors of the event. Pacifichem was founded in 1984 and this year’s congress is the eighth in the series of successful co-sponsored [...]
Some of the attendees in the FEd Virtual Recognition and Fellowship organized to honor and recognize the FEd graduating class of 2021. The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) Faculty of Education (FEd) held the Virtual Recognition & Fellowship for its graduating class of 2021 on 18 December 2021, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 NN via Zoom. Asst. Prof. Louanne Mae Calipayan, FEd faculty member, and Dr. Juliet Aleta R. Villanueva, FEd Secretary and Program Chair of the Diploma in Social Studies Education and Master of Arts in Social Studies Education, served as the hosts of the [...]
The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) Faculty of Management and Development Studies (FMDS) held its Online Recognition and Fellowship Program last 18 December 2021. The recognition program was held to commemorate and honor the FMDS graduating class of 2021. The program opened with warm greetings from the FMDS Dean, Dr. Primo G. Garcia. Dean Garcia proudly congratulated the FMDS Class of 2021 for their hard work and perseverance during their stay in the university. His advice to the graduates is to keep an open perspective as they make a difference and shape the world. The FMDS Class of [...]
The Faculty of Information and Communication Studies (FICS) of the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) held its virtual recognition and thanksgiving for the graduating class of 2020-2021, and 2019 on 18 December 2021, from 9:30 AM to 12:00 NN via Zoom. Asst. Prof. Emely Amoloza served as the program’s host. The ceremony was hosted by Asst. Prof. Emely Amoloza and the invocation was graced by Fr. Rojohn Ramirez, a current Doctor of Communication (DComm) student of UPOU. Dr. Alexander G. Flor, Dean of the FICS, welcomed the graduates, officials, and faculty members with informative welcome remarks. [...]
The UP Open University (UPOU )Faculty of Management and Development Studies (FMDS), through its Research and Publication Committee (RPC) held the 2021 FMDS Research Forum which was live-streamed via the official FMDS Facebook Page on 07 December 2021 from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM. The Research Forum featured seven studies of students from the different graduate programs of FMDS. The research studies were grouped into three themes, the first theme features three studies on “Societal Issues in a Developing Country”, the second theme focuses on two studies related to “Leadership and Administration in Healthcare”, and the third theme highlights two [...]
The UP Open University (UPOU) Open Talk Episode 18 featured a discussion on experiences and learnings of faculty members engaged in their doctoral research during the pandemic. The resource speakers who shared their journeys and challenges were Dr. Jonathan Cagas from the College of Human Kinetics, University of the Philippines Diliman, and Dr. Finaflor Taylan from the Faculty of Management Development Studies, UPOU. The episode was moderated by Dr. J. Aleta Villanueva of the UPOU Faculty of Education. The Open Talk Episode 18 was held on 16 December 2021. In this time of the pandemic, many activities were disrupted, especially [...]
