Tolentino pushes for creation of CHED's distance learning office

Published May 26, 2020 09:40 AM By DONA MAGSINO, GMA News

An office focusing on the implementation of online learning in the tertiary level should be created under the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) for a unified approach to modern education amid the pandemic, Senator Francis Tolentino said Tuesday.

Tolentino filed Senate Bill No. 1459, amending Republic Act10650 or the Open Distance Learning Act, to establish the Tertiary Online Learning and Distance Education Office in CHED.

“Ang problema po kasi natin ngayon eh kanya-kanya ang mga educational institutions sa implementation ng online learning. With the creation of a national framework, CHED will prescribe the minimum requirements for the curriculum and will also oversee the ‘quality control’,” he said.

The unit shall be created with the help of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).

It shall be tasked to develop policy guidelines and standards for the utilization of the said platform.

“Oras na para palakasin natin ang ating mga makabagong educational platforms na online at distance learning lalo na at makakatulong sila sa ating mga estudyante na ipagpatuloy ang kanilang pag-aaral sa kabila ng pandemya na ito at iba pang mga sakuna," he said.

CHED recently urged the higher education institutions to use "flexible learning" systems using digital and non-digital technology as the academic year opens in August.

President Rodrigo Duterte, on the other hand, said classes should remain suspended in the country until a vaccine against COVID-19 is made available.—AOL, GMA News
 

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