Jecel Rose I. IbardolazaBSED III

PROJECT IN PRE-LIM
(EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY 2) 10:00-11:30 TTH

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Students must have access to computers and broadband Internet to benefit from e-learning

          Technology has made almost every experience virtual—from making friends and talking with them to doing business with other people. Education has followed suit with e-learning.Today’s learners are tech-savvy digital natives—mobile phone toting, Internet surfing and RPG-game playing youngsters.Steve Jobs, Apple cofounder and former CEO, was one of the first to recognize these digital natives. Apple content-creation tools for education—GarageBand, iMovie and iWork as well as podcasts and apps on virtually every subject matter—are fostering creativity and innovation in classrooms across the globe.

National Open University

                         

         Experts also suggest that inferior Internet service in many parts of Asia discourage potential students from getting their degrees online.
In the Philippines, House Bill No. 4883, which seeks to declare the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) the national Open University of the Philippines has reached its final reading in the House of Representatives.
       Also known as the “Open Learning and Distance Education Act of 2011,” it seeks to make distance learning more accessible to Filipinos and to institute policies that ensure the quality of these distance-education programs.
Under HB 4883, the Commission on Higher Education and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority will regulate the distance-education programs offered by secondary schools. 
       The development of new programs will be led by UPOU. Other tertiary institutions in the country offering distance-learning programs include the Philippine Women’s University (PWU), De La Salle University, Polytechnic University of the Philippines and the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila.

Six Characteristics

                               

        However, despite these initiatives, many are still at a loss on what e-learning and ICT integrated education are. In 2001, Louis Bonder of the University of Amsterdam, presented six key characteristics of e-learning:

Digitization of course materials

Delivery of the materials regardless of the learner’s location

Learner studying at his or her own pace

Information must be free-flowing

Platforms must be interactive

Learning must be collaborative

        In the Philippines, a number of e-learning products and services are available. These include libraries where students can access the Online Public Access Catalog to locate the physical copies of the references they need, public domain reference collections and online encyclopedias.

Online coursework

                               

          To support their open university and distance-learning programs, UP and the PWU have made content and coursework available online. Leading IT companies such as Microsoft, Intel and Oracle have also partnered with DepEd to provide management tools and resources for teachers.While many private grade schools and high schools such as Don Bosco, Lourdes School of Mandaluyong, Hope Christian School, First Asia Institute of Technology and Huamanities and Saint Paul University Philippines have successfully integrated ICT into their lessons, public basic education is still lagging behind.