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DRDM student tops anew graduating class; Devcom grads continue dominance of honors list
Posted by Don on 16 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Buhay OU
Devcom grads with inset of honor students (clockwise): Fr. GG, Lilay, and Don
FOR TWO YEARS in a row, a graduate student of the program, Diploma in Research and Development Management (DRDM) tops the graduating class, while graduate students of the program, Master in Development Communication continue to dominate the honors list.
Susan Eleanor Claro of DRDM is the valedictorian for the UPOU’s graduating class of 2007. She works as a technical and management adviser and country representative for Health Unlimited (HU), a UK-based NGO in Laos. Her work involves managing and developing the HU Laos country programme and liaising with government authorities, counterparts, and development aid donors.
Last year’s valedictorian, Niño Ismael Sanchez Pastor of the Department of Health (DoH), was also from DRDM. Read More »
U.P. naming Mahal
Posted by Don on 09 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Buhay OU
U.P. naming mahal
Pamantasang hirang
Ang tinig namin
Sana’y iyong dinggin
Malayong lupain
Amin mang marating
Di rin magbabago ang damdamin
Di rin magbabago ang damdamin
Luntian at pula
Sagisag magpakailanman
Ating ipagdiwang
Bulwagan ng dangal
Humayo’t itanghal
Giting at tapang
Mabuhay ang pag-asa ng bayan
Mabuhay ang pag-asa ng bayan.
Devcom’s Gerard Ravasco and his take on distance learning
Posted by Gigi Ravasco on 06 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Buhay OU
(Presented at the Third National Open and Distance Learning Conference held at the Traders Hotel in Manila February 2007)
During the past decades open and distance education has always been considered and described as (permit me to use the words of Cherie Gil in the 1985 movie Bituing Walang Ningning) “nothing but a second rate, trying hard, copycat” in comparison to the traditional brick and mortar schools. But with the onslaught of new technologies at its disposal, open and distance learning has come of age and could now compete with the quality of traditional classroom education… 
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Time management in OU
Posted by Kape at Dyaryo on 06 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Buhay OU
How do UPOU students cope with their FMAs, TMAs, papers, work, family and other things that matter? Here’s some excerpts from this interesting thread at www.upou.kapehan.net.
A post from MIS major Jerrold Donato inquired about time management in OU:
Guys, how do you do this? Can you give me some tips, lalo na sa mga laging over time sa work, then stil need time for family, then time for the module and projects sa OU? Tapos at the end of the sem with good grades pa?
Here were the replies he got:
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