Innovating delivery of education

The Department of Education has sealed a partnership with local internet providers as part of its efforts to innovate the delivery of education in the country.

The DepEd has signed a tripartite Memoranda of Agreement (MOA) with the Converge ICT Solutions Inc. and Pacific Kable Net that will pave the way for the use of their fiber connectivity and cable channels at no cost to the DepEd to ensure the delivery of digital learning materials to learners.

The signing gives the Department some degree of hope that it is possible to connect with each other, in any classroom, in any school, in any part of the Philippines with the use of technology.

The Department has partners from the private sector who are willing to help, as the agency needs all the help available especially considering the number of learners at this time.

The MOA aims to support DepEd’s Public Education Network (PEN) and promulgate DepEd TV and DepEd Commons to continue supplementing the learners’self-learning modules (SLMs).

The agreement also pushes forward the Public Education Network (PEN) that intends to provide all DepEd offices and public schools, especially those in far-flung areas, with accessibility and connectivity.

This deal is also expected to make all of DepEd’s learning platforms such as DepEd Commons, DepEd TV, DepEd Learning Management System, and Learning Resources Portal (LR Portal) available for disadvantaged and marginalized communities. Aside from providing access to the Department’s online learning resources, the PEN will also allow DepEd Offices nationwide to access platforms in aid of governance such as the DepEd Enterprise Resource Planning System (DERPS), the Learner Information System (LIS), the DepEd Mobile App, and other partner platforms.

Connectivity and accessibility will no longer become challenges but will now become realities, connecting the disconnected, and ensuring that no Filipino learner will be left behind.

Converge, together with local government partners, commits to bridge the glaring digital divide in education in the country, which the COVID-19 pandemic revealed, in order to help the Department reach its goal of providing quality education to Filipino learners.

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The author is Teacher I at Sto. Niño Elementary School, San Simon District, Division of Pampanga