SDG 17

Many of us wonder what the scenario will be like when students cease going to school and learn entirely in the confines of their homes, especially with the ongoing global health crisis. Would students grasp lessons that require hands-on skills and special instruments? Will  students be able to learn as much at home as in school? How do we ensure that the students experience the same quality of laboratory learning outside the classroom? The fifth episode of University of the Philippines Open University’s (UPOU) “Edu-Hack: Navigating through a Turbulent Educational Landscape” is aimed at addressing these questions. Entitled “Re-creating SciLab [...]

The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) conducted the 4th episode of the Edu-Hack podcast series. This time, UPOU tackled “Strategic Transitioning to Remote Teaching and Learning (RTL).” The webinar was conducted on 16 June 2020 and was attended by school teachers, administrators and staff members from different parts of the country and the world.  Three of UPOU’s top experts in Open and Distance eLearning (ODeL) served as panelists for the event. These were Dr. Melinda dela Pena Bandalaria, UPOU Chancellor; Dr. Melinda F. Lumanta, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs; and Dr. Primo G. Garcia, Dean of the Faculty [...]

The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) held the third session of its Edu-Hack podcast series entitled “Pedagogical Potentials of Immersive Technologies” on 3 June 2020. The series featured two resource persons, namely, Assoc. Prof. Eric Hawkinson and Asst. Prof. Roberto B. Figueroa, Jr., who shared their expertise on the potentials of  immersive technologies in the educational sector through new learning opportunities and paradigms to best fit the needs of our changing times. Assoc. Prof. Eric Hawkinson teaches immersive technology and immersive tourism at the Kyoto University of Foreign Studies. He is also the founder of “ARientation,” a [...]

The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) Master of Public Management Program, under the Faculty of Management and Development Studies, and the Association of Schools of Public Administration in the Philippines, Inc. (ASPAP) teamed up for a webinar series this June 2020. “Are We Really Going Online: ASPAP Webinar Series on Public Administration and Governance Education During the time of the New Normal”  is a three-part webinar series that will be held on 10, 17 and 24 June 2020 every 10:00 -11:30 AM via live streaming through the UPOU Networks (https://networks.upou.edu.ph/). The maiden broadcast on 10 June, 10:00-11:30 AM, [...]

Just like the popular series “Crash Landing on You”, the world has crash landed into the unknown as we are currently facing the crisis that is COViD-19. With another successful Let’s Talk it Over (LTiO) Session, the Master of Public Management (MPM), University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) Faculty of Management and Development Studies (FMDS) and the Association of Schools of Public Administration in the Philippines (ASPAP), Inc., joined together to be able to impart and contextualize the situation we are in. Threat, uncertainty and urgency are the three elements of crisis – elements that are all present [...]

The Faculty of Management and Development Studies (FMDS) organized a Let’s Talk it Over (LTiO) webinar entitled “Capacitating Oneself for the New Normal” on 27 May 2020 to discuss the importance of well-being in these trying times and how people can be capacitated to cope with these challenges and be prepared for the “new normal” after this pandemic. Jenine Bagos, Project Staff of Diploma in/Master of Social Work (D/MSW) and Diploma in Women and Development (DWD) of FMDS and moderator of the webinar, started the event by sharing the importance of “emotional protective equipment” to endure the mental impact of [...]

The third episode of the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) “Edu-Hack: Navigating through a Turbulent Educational Landscape” will be held on 3 June 2020 at 2PM.  This episode is titled “Pedagogical Potential of Immersive Technologies” and will feature three experts on the subject, namely, Mr. Danilo Pasquariello, a Web-VR Expert from the United Kingdom, Assoc. Prof. Eric Hawkinson from the Kyoto University of Foreign Studies in Japan; and UPOU’s very own Asst. Prof. Roberto B. Figueroa, Jr..  The discussion will include a brief introduction about immersive technologies and how these technologies can be used for basic and higher [...]

The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) held the second series of the Edu-Hack podcast on 12 May 2020 with Connectivity and Networks as the topic of the discussion. This episode featured four panel members, two of which came from the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), from a telecommunication service provider, and two from the Education Sector. This episode, aptly themed “Institutional adaptation to disruptions in higher learning,” was a combination of how representatives of the education sector, DICT and a TelCo adopted the disruption in learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Alexander G. Flor, Professor [...]

The sixty-minute online panel interview held on 28 April 2020 was a short and sweet success for the  University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU). Dr. Alexander Flor, Dean of the UPOU Faculty of Information and Communication Studies (FICS), effectively moderated the first series of the UPOU “Edu-Hack: Navigating through a Turbulent Educational Landscape” entitled “How are Philippine Universities Responding to Disruptions in Education Brought About by COVID-19 Pandemic?” The panel members for this session were Dr. Melinda dela Pena Bandalaria, UPOU Professor and Chancellor; Dr. Abegayle Machelle M. Perez-Chua, University of Batangas (UB) Vice President for Academic Affairs; and [...]