SLMs as ‘backbone’ of distance learning

Keith P. Dimog

BECAUSE of the health crisis, the Department of Education is implementing distance learning as the mode of learning for some 22.7 million students who have enrolled in public schools this school year.

However, since the school year 2020-2021 started, there have been numerous reports of errors found in self-learning modules and other learning materials, to the consternation of everyone.

However, the agency said it will continue to address these errors, as the second quarter of the school year had started.

Issues in SLMs currently being used by students in the basic education system under the distance learning set-up mainly involve content, according to the department – which they had addressed.

The said errors have become viral, with netizens pointing them out and posting them on social media like Facebook. These issues were found in locally-developed modules, and included various errors on facts, computation, format, printing, spelling and punctuation, and grammar/syntax.

The DepEd came out with a system to monitor these errors – the DepEd Error Watch which was launched recently to track the mistakes.

The DepEd Bureau of Learning Resources also conducted an orientation on the submission and evaluation of SLMs for Quarters 3 and 4 of SY 2020-2021 as part of its efforts to ensure the quality of SLMs. The orientation was conducted virtually.

The author is Teacher

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III at Dolores Stand Alone Senior High School