Featuring a variety of career specializations that go beyond the popular fields, the guidebook aims to develop a culture of science and technology among the youth, promote STEM education, and popularize careers that are unfamiliar to many.
Edutech company Instructure, the maker of the Canvas learning management system (LMS) used by top schools in the Philippines, held an online press briefing last Nov.17 to discuss the future of education in the country.
Tech giant Microsoft has recently expanded the capabilities of its Reading Progress tool to include the Filipino language, which is now available to the 27 million students and 950,000 teachers within the Department of Education’s (DepEd) nationwide system.
Team HACKRR from the National University in Laguna recently won in Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Junior (ICJ) AI for Good Challenge 2022, where several teams of junior and senior high school students from across the Philippines participated to develop solutions for real-world challenges.
Designed and taught by Google, the Google Professional Certificate courses delivered through Coursera aim to equip the country’s workforce with job-ready skills for high-growth technology fields. They are suitable for jobseekers with no technology related degrees or experience and can be finished in three to six months.
TAGPROS, which is based at the University of the Philippines Diliman campus in Quezon City, has invested P46.7 million for its Learning Management Systems (LMS) project. The company is now in operation, employing about 874 personnel, majority of which are teachers.
Under Senate Bill No. 477 or the Philippine Online Library Act, the Department of Education (DepEd) is mandated to create digitized copies of all textbooks and reference books it deems necessary for the public education of our elementary and secondary learners.
Under Senate Bill No. 72 or the proposed "Philippine Computer Programming Education Act", Sen. Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III proposed that computer programming be taught beginning Grade 4.
The FEU Institute of Technology announced the Data Science specialization for BS Computer Science, Business Analytics specialization for BS Information Technology, and Innovation specialization for BS Information Technology.
