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1st Philippine Open Education forum
The mini-conference aims to inquire upon the feasibility and development of private initiatives to contribute in the Philippine educational or learning system, as alternative else collaborating actors in this matter.
— Philippine Commons
23 April 2008
830-900 :: Registration
900-915 :: Invocation
915-1000 :: Introduction to Open Education
Speaker/org: Creative Commons Philippines
Atty. Jaime “Jimmy” Soriano
1000-1015 Q&A
1015-1030 :: Break
1030-1115 :: […]
What’s going on at Bayanihan Books?
In the past 10 days, Bayanihan Books’ mailing list doubled to 43 members. Two books are now available for editing and volunteers have already started writing the outline based on learning competencies outlined by the Department of Education.
I would like to thank all volunteers who believe in this project and the people spreading the word […]
Public schools textbook prices down
Read this great news from Inquirer (Jan 11, 2008, A13).
In 1998, the cost of each textbook was:
— 70 pesos for elementary books
— 120 pesos for secondary books
Last year, the cost went down to:
— 37 pesos for elementary
— 59 pesos for secondary.
This is one big step to make textbooks more accessible to more poor Filipino students. […]
Arellano University launches Creative Commons in the Philippines
The Arellano University School of Law have launched (and I could say with a bang!) last January 14 the Philippine version of the Creative Commons license.
So why should there be a Philippine version? The law varies from country to country and it is important that we use a Creative Commons license adopted to our law […]
How to solve our textbook problems and give every Filipino a better education
Every start of the school year, our adviser hands out textbooks for the entire class. She would call our names one by one and instruct us to pick a number of books from a pile. Since we were always called alphabetically and my surname starts with M, I keep an anxious look at the diminishing […]
Larry Lessig on how creativity is being strangled by the law
As always, a very rich and convincing presentation from Larry Lessig.
National Children’s Book Day
This year’s theme is “Basa tayo, ‘Tay!” to celebrate the role of fathers in reading with their children.
The Philippine Board on Books for Young People leads the celebration of this annual event.
Do schools kill creativity?
When my wife visited a college friend’s home, she saw several framed paintings on the wall. It was drawn by her friend when she was still a kid. My wife was surprised because no one in their group knew their friend can paint. When asked to do another painting for them, her friend simply said […]
DepEd Cyber Education Project gets funding
The Philippine government signed 5 agreements with the Chinese government that includes funding for the Department of Education’s (DepEd) Cyber Education Project. The project is worth US$ 465.5 million (around P26.48 billion). The Cyber Education Project will cover 23,549 public schools nationwide and 665 Alternative Learning System (ALS) Learning Centers.
The 5 agreements were signed last […]
More kids dropping out of school
According to statistics I got from the Department of Education, in school year 2002-2003 there are 12 million students enrolled in public elementary schools but only 4.8 million in public secondary schools. What happened to the 7.2 million young students?
The recent report from ADB also tells us a very sad story. Our net enrollment deteriorated […]
