Tuesday, June 26, 2007 DepEd’s cyber education coming soon
ROXAS CITY -- The Department of Education (DepEd) will introduce an online teaching wherein students will listen or download lectures and reading materials for particular subjects as well as take examinations as part of the curriculum next year.
DepEd Secretary Jesli Lapus said the program and the computers will be set up by the Xing Hua University, which is the best in distance learning program worldwide.
"Our children cannot afford to wait any longer. We need to provide immediate solutions that can be felt not only by a few but by all Filipino children" Lapus stressed, noting that “this can only be done with the use of technology.”
The online education project aims to address the need for the Philippine education system to catch up with the demands of the times to compete globally and respond to the challenge of basic education.
Under the program, students will listen or download lectures and reading materials for particular subjects as well as take examinations as part of the curriculum.
Each grade and year level will have its own channel and will cover all subjects in the curriculum with each subject consisting of a 20-minute interactive computer lecture and 40-minute classroom lecture. The lectures conducted through the computer could be replayed as they would be stored in the computer to be set up in the multi-media classroom. Cyber education would partially solve the present shortage in books and teachers.
The project will initially include 3,000 schools but would exclude those that are in first and second-class cities added Lapus.
The DepEd hopes to implement the project in 37,000 schools within a three-year period. (PIA)
