Dr. Roberto Figueroa, Associate Professor and Director of the Immersive Open Pedagogies Program, represented the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU), as he delivered guest lectures and conducted learning workshops across several universities in Japan. The Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) initiatives kicked off at Toyo University in Itakura,…
The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) Immersive Open Pedagogies (IOP) Program participated in the Future Hub Forum 2023, held on 16 September 2023 at the Kyoto University of Foreign Studies (KUFS) in Japan. The event pioneered a “flip-style” approach to deeply engage with the challenges and opportunities of…
Dr. Roberto Figueroa Jr., Director of the Immersive Open Pedagogies (IOP) Program under the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (OVCAA), paid a visit to the International Christian University (ICU) in Tokyo, Japan last 13 September 2023. He was accompanied by IOP staff Joshze Rica Esguerra. He introduced…
The Immersive Open Pedagogies (IOP) program hosted three interns from the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) on July 10 up until August 24, 2023. Elijah Gabriel Malazarte and Joseph Gabriel Sta. Rita, BS Computer Science majors, and Rovie S. de Ramos, BS Applied Physics, took on various collaborative…
University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) and the Sentro ng Wikang Filipino – UP Diliman (SWF-UPD) recently held a workshop entitled, “Workshop sa Paggawa ng Interactive Book gamit ang H5P”, at the Sentro ng Wikang Filipino (SWF) Office in UP Diliman on 13 July 2023. The event took place…
The Director of Immersive Open Pedagogies (IOP) Program, Dr. Roberto B. Figueroa Jr., embarked on significant visits to universities in the United Kingdom from the 7th to the 19th of June, 2023, aiming to establish potential collaborative projects with key individuals in the field. At the beginning of his trip,…
In celebration of International Forest Day, K-12 students around Laguna were welcomed to the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) Faculty of Management and Development Studies (FMDS) Perma G.A.R.D.E.N (Growing Appreciation toward Resilience, Development, Entrepreneurship, and Nutrition). The FMDS Perma G.A.R.D.E.N. was launched on 21 March 2023, and a…
Five faculty members and researchers represented the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) in the World Learning Labs Symposium (WoLL) 2023 held at the Kyoto University of Foreign Studies (KUFS) on 27-28 January 2023. The event brought together industry professionals and academics to discuss real-world case studies and contexts…
The University of the Philippines Open University’s (UPOU) OpenTalk 27 featured a discussion on Developing Immersive Learning Programs for Higher Education through Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and beyond. The guest speaker was Prof. Eric Hawkinson, Professor and Learning Futurist at the School of Global Engagement in Kyoto University…
The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) conducted the Hands-on Workshop on Developing Immersive Learning Programs for Higher Education on 01 September 2022. The resource speaker of the activity is Professor Eric Hawkinson, a visiting professor under the Faculty of Information and Communication Studies (FICS) and also a faculty…