McDonald's Philippines has converted the party rooms in its branches nationwide to a distance learning classrooms for teachers who need working space to prepare their lessons or to conduct their online classes in branches with WiFi connection. McDonald's PH will allow teachers to use their...
For 33-year-old Daisy Jane Diola of Cebu City, there could not be a better time to go back to school, betting against all odds in a pandemic. Giving up her sales job, she embraced technology and started attending online classes, one of hundreds of thousands nationwide now braving the...
With the demand surge for connectivity and distance learning under the new normal, Philippine Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (PT&T) partnered with community-driven social enterprise Go Philippines to provide 5.1 million Filipinos with online courses and employment accreditation....
A lot of people become farmers in retirement. One of them is Thelma Murillo, a retiree who is now a full-time farmer after working in the corporate world for more than 30 years. Murillo shares that her fondness for farming arose from childhood. “I was exposed to planting at an early age...
Tips for your continuing online education Historically speaking, the world has entered the digital age back in the latter half of the 20th century, as economies shifted from traditional industries to those based on information technology. Although various e-learning modes have been in use,...
Tips on choosing the right one to help children get through online distance learning this school year Finding a tutor for our children can be a very daunting task. We are entrusting their future in the hands of an outsider or even a stranger who will, with hope and eventually, become our good...
Neri Naig Learning never stops for Neri Naig. The actress enrolled in an Entrepreneurship course at the Harvard School online. Posting a copy of her course verification form, she wrote, "Ayuuuuuun! Nakatanggap din ng email from Harvard! "Ang sabi, 'Welcome to Entrepreneurship Essentials! We...
Practical strategies for parents to help their children learn when the school year begins again, from a public school teacher By Khristian Ross Pimentel Parents, guardians, siblings, and other family members have an important calling this pandemic. We must all help teach our children. But teaching...
GET SCHOOLED A teaching fellow based in Cagayan de Oro conducting an online class as a way to adapt to the new normal in education (Photo courtesy of Teach for the Philippines) One of the incalculable losses of the Covid-19 pandemic is in how children and teenagers have, in many ways, been forced...
This university is MILES ahead of other educational institutions Humanity remains troubled by the Covid-19 crisis. The Philippine government maintains its imposition of the varying degrees of quarantine throughout the country, disrupting our everyday lives. The education sector is among the most...
Recognizing the power of technology to keep the country’s education system running amid the current health crisis, leading software solutions firm Multisys Technologies Corporation launched its SchoolBox platform that supports online distance learning modalities. SchoolBox is a digital academic...
