The UPOU Undergraduate Assessment Test (UgAT) for the 1st Trimester AY 2020-2021, originally scheduled on 18 July 2020, has been moved to 2 and 3 August 2020, Sunday and Monday. UgAT will be administered online. Additional information and instructions will be provided by the UPOU Office of the University Registrar via email to all examinees. #UPOpenUniversity
The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) Faculty of Information and Communication Studies (FICS), in partnership with the UPOU Alumni Foundation, Inc. (UPOUAFI), held the FICS Masterclass: A Lecture Series from Thought Leaders on 3 July 2020. The lecture, titled, “Appreciating the Numbers in Communication Research: Statistical Methods in Social Science,” was the second installment in the series of lectures led by Thought Leader Dr. Nancy E. Añez-Tandang. FICS Dean, Dr. Alexander G. Flor, served as the moderator for the session while UPOU Professor Emeritus, Dr. Felix Librero, also participated in the thought-sharing. The part two of this lecture [...]
The Faculty of Management and Development Studies (FMDS) and the Master of Arts in Nursing (MAN) Program organized the Let’s Talk It Over webinar titled “Who Takes Care of the Caregivers? The COVID-19 Experience” on 11 June 2020 to take a closer look at the situations of nurses during this pandemic and their experience as COVID-19 patients and survivors. The COVID-19 Experience Ms. Angelique Rosete, a gyne-oncology and trophoblastic nurse at the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital, Mr. John Alex Melencio, a charge nurse in Royal Brompton Hospital, United Kingdom. shared their experiences as nurses who take care of [...]
The UPOU Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (OVCAA), in collaboration with the Faculty of Management and Development Studies (FMDS), is inviting you to the fifth installment of the Futures Research Series with Dr. Mary Grace B. Dacuma as the resource speaker. Dr. Dacuma shall talk about " Unraveling the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Advances in Molecular Epidemiology". This will be on 10 July 2020 (Friday), 10:00 AM to 12:00 NN. Also, below here are the links for the webinar: Registration: https://networks.upou.edu.ph/frregistration/ or https://forms.gle/NxxKPSBGxwUZ2MSQ9 Link to the UPOU Networks: https://networks.upou.edu.ph/futuresresearch/ In case you cannot access the link above, you can use the following: Link to the [...]
Are we really going online? This is a question raised due to the unprecedented impact of the COViD 19 pandemic to the education sector. The sudden shift of institutions that once offered traditional, face-to-face learning are now scrambling to learn the ropes of Online Learning. The Master of Public Management (MPM) Program of the University of the Philippine Open University’s (UPOU) Faculty of Management and Development Studies (FMDS) in partnership with the Association of Schools of Public Administration in the Philippines (ASPAP), Inc., organized a three-part webinar series to contextualize online learning in the Philippines, [...]
The next episode of “Edu-Hack: Navigating a Turbulent Educational Landscape” targets students who will be enrolling this academic year, with the gloom of the pandemic on their shoulders. “What will it be like to study for a university degree during a pandemic?” is the theme for the next episode. It will feature Lenard D. Visaya, UP Los Banos Bachelor of Science in Agriculture student; Alyanna Asumen, UPOU Bachelor of Arts in Multimedia Studies (BAMS) student; Victor Sison, UPOU BAMS and Master of Distance Education Alumnus; and Dr. Dinah Palmera Nadera, UP Diliman Health Service Resident Psychiatrist and former UPOU [...]
The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) is mandated under the Open Distance Learning Act (RA 10650) to help capacitate open distance learning teachers and practitioners through capacity building and professionalization programs. With the global health crisis that disrupted the education system of the country, higher education institutions (HEIs) and basic education institutions alike have been seeking help from UPOU in transitioning to the new normal of education. To properly provide a more strategic response and assistance to the numerous institutions seeking help in transitioning and migrating to a flexible learning mode, UPOU created a response system which features [...]
The UP Open University (UPOU) Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (OVCAA), in collaboration with the UPOU Faculty of Education conducted the fourth webinar on Research Conversations 2020: Futures Research Series with Dr. Federico Lauro as the resource speaker. Dr. Lauro, an Associate Professor of the Asian School of the Environment and the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering of Nanyang Technological University, gave a talk on the use of “Citizen Science” as a research approach. The webinar was held on 30 June 2020 (Tuesday), 9:00 to 11:00 AM and was participated in by viewers from national [...]
The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) Chancellor, Dr. Melinda dela Pena Bandalaria, served as lecturer for Bulacan State University’s (BulSU) webinar with the theme, “EDUK-KAKAIBA: Guro, Alamin Mo Na” held on 25 June 2020. The crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic brought has led to many educational institutions deciding to adapt a more flexible mode of learning, which will enable them to cater to the needs of their students. In adhering firmly to Bulacan State University’s vision of becoming a progressive knowledge-generating institution, one measure it crafted to cope with the crisis was to conduct training programs to equip [...]
Application for Iskolar ng Bayan Application Period 29 June 2020 to 20 July 2020 No. of Slots 8 only Qualifications • Must be a Filipino citizen; • Has graduated from any public HS in the country within 2 years prior to SY2020; • Must provide a certification from the public HS, duly signed by the school principal, of the rank of the applicant in the Top Ten of the graduating (Grade 12)class; • Must be enrolling for the first time in college and has no credited college subjects; • If applying through automatic admission (i.e. did not take the UPCAT, but satisfies [...]
