by Ma. Rosette San Buenaventura
Research Conversations' featured speaker for the InnovaTE Flagship Program is Dr. Sheila R
Bonito.
InnovaTE promotes the adoption and/or adaption of innovative technology-supported teaching methodologies in support of effective learning. Its performance indicators were enumerated as such: (1) innovative technology-supported teaching methodologies; (2) enhanced capacity in effective online teaching among the faculty; and (3) reduced attrition and improved graduation rates among students. Its initial components consist of: (1) online teaching toolkit available in the Faculty Portal website; (2) faculty seminar-workshop/webinar series; (3) online teaching skills certification program; and (4) FIC and Tutor Congress.
InnovaTE promotes the adoption and/or adaption of innovative technology-supported teaching methodologies in support of effective learning. Its performance indicators were enumerated as such: (1) innovative technology-supported teaching methodologies; (2) enhanced capacity in effective online teaching among the faculty; and (3) reduced attrition and improved graduation rates among students. Its initial components consist of: (1) online teaching toolkit available in the Faculty Portal website; (2) faculty seminar-workshop/webinar series; (3) online teaching skills certification program; and (4) FIC and Tutor Congress.
Dr. Sheila expounded on the Faculty Portal website, noting that it
is still under development but is already up and running. The website is designed to house modules
for FICs and Open Educational Resources (OERs) as an effort to collate, organize,
and present available content. However, at the moment, only modules for course
authors are available and can already be retrieved at faculty.icodel.org. Webinars and workshops on open educational
practices, OER in Education, extent of use of OER in UPOU, and OER in Health
have been conducted with many more to come. Dr. Sheila provided websites such as roer4d.org and oerhub.com as sample resources on OERs and open education studies, data
sets, etc.
By the end of the conversation, a call for continued research on open education and
OERs and for other research topic suggestions was raised. The audience also voiced out their concerns on how resources such as student theses repository and data sets can be made accessible for everyone. It comes as existing policies like the Data Privacy Act limits practitioners to
make their work available for all.
watch the recording of the conversation at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLiqeNUxu5x2HMuySXKnMcHzgTBeIovfH7&v=m-9YeRwBZEM
