Category: NEWS & EVENTS

Through a workshop held on October 24 and 25, 2017 at the National Arts Center, Mt. Makiling, Laguna, the Padayon Public Service Office of the UP System prepared a batch of University personnel to write journal articles based on the public service programs they have been undertaking in the University.

Eight faculty, research, extension and professional staff members of UP Diliman, UP Los Baños, UP Manila, UP Visayas, UP Mindanao, and UP Open University went through workshop sessions on conceptual frameworks and quantitative methods of research that can best apply to their public service, so that they can come up with journal articles, either in English and Filipino, or both.

The schedule of other courses offered under ODeL Teacher Accreditation program will be posted at http://model.upou.edu.ph. Online registration is also on this site. For inquiries, you may email us at [email protected].

Opening educational opportunities to everyone is UP Open University’s (UPOU) mandate as a public service institution. Through the years, UPOU has been involved in the improvement of the practice of open learning and distance education. UPOU explores and implements different pedagogies to reach more students and help improve education in the Philippines.

UPOU is an advocate of openness and adheres to the philosophy of Open Education. When the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) was introduced in 2012, UPOU immediately explored this new technology and pedagogy. A series of MOOCs workshops and conversations were conducted to understand how MOOCs could target specific skill sets and social sectors.

PAGSUBAY LITERARY ARTS FESTIVAL (April 2017)

SURAT SALIDA Creative Writing and Poetry Performance Workshop

Resource Persons:  Dr.Vim Nadera, multi awarded poet/performing artist & Director, Philippine High School for the Arts; Ms. Daryll Delgado, National Book Awardee

The Division of Humanities has sustained its KATBARI Arts Festival in celebration of the National Arts Month of February for about a decade now.  The event is held in conjunction with the nation-wide activities led by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.  The KatbariArtsfest consists of a series of events that include lecture forums on the arts, art workshops, exhibits, poetry reading, poetry performance, concerts and theater productions.  Its purpose is to showcase the creative works of student and faculty artists, enhance the discourse on the study of literature, visual and media arts, and the performing arts and enrich the community life with cultural and artistic events.

Since the onslaught of Super Typhoon Yolandain November 2013, the Psychology cluster of DSS has been actively involved in the direct provision of psychosocial services to the people of Eastern Visayas as well as training various individuals and groups on how to become facilitators of psychological first aid (PFA). PFA trainings aim to capacitate lay people in terms of gaining the knowledge and skills necessary in facilitating PFA for survivors of disasters and emergencies. To date, the Psychology faculty of DSS have already trained hundreds of individuals from different organizations and agencies such as DepEd, Department of Health, local barangay government units, universities, and private companies, among others.

The Office of Continuing Education and Pahinungod (OCEP) conducted a Training Needs Assessment (TNA) among coastal barangays of Miagao, Tigbauan, Anilao, and Dumangas in Iloilo in coordination with the respective Municipal Agriculture Offices of the Local Government Units (LGUs).   The project aimed to come up with an extensive list of the fisherfolks’ training needs so that the University – through its faculty, REPS, administrative personnel, and students – could appropriately respond to these.

VISION An office that sustains a lifelong engagement, interest, and concern of the alumni and the university. MISSION To create programs and undertake projects and activities that strengthen link of the university with the alumni, alumni with other alumni, and alumni with other academic and non-academic institutions and organizations

The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) through the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (OVCAA) holds Research Conversations every Friday at the UPOU Sandbox, Los Baños, Laguna. The forum serves as a venue for research collaboration and discussion among UPOU stakeholders. For this year, starting January 2017, the research conversations have been focusing on the 12 flagship programs of UPOU which can be categorized under four key areas: Teaching, Learning and Research (Saliksik, InnovaTE, FLEx, and @ccessUP); Public Service (Mission RA 10650, openUP, UPOU Connected, and PLAZA); Governance (e-FA 3.0, CARe-UPOU, and TAYO); and Quality Assurance.

For more than two decades now, the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) has been playing a pivotal role in widening access to quality education especially to sectors that are not normally reached by the conventional educational system. The UPOU is the pioneer and leading institution in open and distance learning (ODL) in the Philippines and the 5th Constituent Unit (CU) of the University of the Philippines (UP) System.