Dr. Dodjie Maestrecampo
Mapúa College is increasing and deepening its engagement not simply with its college students, but additionally different learners desirous to reskill and upskill, and all people else who needs to be lifelong learners.
Because the college marks its a centesimal anniversary, it launched Mapúa X, a streaming schooling platform that may present each college students and lecturers higher entry to assets that may improve studying and tutorial abilities.
Mapúa X is described as “a catalog or streaming platform for schooling [that] brings a recent and progressive method to studying, mirroring the convenience of entry and selection [of] streaming providers.”
The platform may even provide on-line applications that allow professionals and nonprofessionals to improve data and experience of their respective fields, even upskill and/or reskill to answer altering calls for in workplaces.
Applications may even be out there to lifelong learners who might wish to purchase abilities or data that may make them extra productive or improve the standard of their lives.
Mapúa X presents a various collection of academic content material, from know-how and engineering to enterprise and artistic arts.
For this trendsetting endeavor, Mapúa has partnered with Anthology, an schooling know-how useful resource firm that gives a collection of options for greater schooling establishments. Its tech options are designed to boost studying experiences, streamline administrative processes and be certain that academic content material is partaking and efficient.
Mapúa College president Dodjie Maestrecampo says the brand new streaming service “will enhance pupil entry [to learning] assets and cut back boundaries to tutorial achievements.”
Content material can be interactive and accessible by multimedia. Mapúa may even make it very partaking.
Mapúa X, Maestrecampo provides, “will cater to a variety of learners” from professionals desirous to study new abilities or improve their competencies to college students learning for levels and life-long learners.
Accessibility can be ensured, permitting customers to go to the location utilizing any digital system, together with cell phones.
Samuel Tang
Samuel Tang, Anthology nation supervisor, says a cell software may be downloaded by any pupil and programs may be seen offline even when there is no such thing as a web service.
“Via Anthology’s LMS (studying administration system), we’re in a position to make Mapúa X user-friendly whereas delivering high-quality academic content material,” Tang provides.
Tang explains why Mapúa, a number one greater schooling establishment in know-how and science, has to companion with Anthology for X. The schooling know-how firm, he says, “is uniquely positioned to permit establishments to develop and scale at their very own tempo [by offering] options that [go] past conventional educating and studying.”
Versatile, inclusive
Mapúa makes use of the Blackboard LMS that’s straightforward to make use of and has trendy interface and progressive options, such because the Generative AI (synthetic intelligence)-Design Assistant. It helps the imaginative and prescient of Mapúa X, Tang says.
The LMS that Mapúa X makes use of permits college students to navigate their programs simply, entry assets, submit assignments and discuss to their professors, amongst different issues.
“Our collaboration with Anthology permits us to make use of a coaching and growth supervisor method constructed inside a sturdy LMS platform,” Maestrecampo says. Mapúa X will permit customers to proceed their schooling, skilled growth and group enrichment with out enrolling on campus. They’ll self-enroll in programs, earn credentials and entry earlier, current and future programs from anyplace at any time.
Ericson Dimaunahan
Maestrecampo says Mapúa X will begin by providing programs beneath present applications. The platform will then be used for persevering with teaching programs, certification and different quick {and professional} development programs.
The college president notes that, within the period of digital transformation, “workplaces are looking for agile, entrepreneurial professionals who can shortly adapt and pivot in a really aggressive and dynamic economic system.”
Studying establishments have to maneuver past conventional studying strategies and undertake new approaches that may higher put together college students for unstable work environments.
He provides that, by Mapúa X, they provide free programs as a part of company social duty initiatives. Junior and senior highschool lecturers can have entry to assets on efficient educating practices and different supplies that may enhance their tutorial abilities.
Mapúa X additionally goals to extend entry to greater schooling by offering individuals who lack the monetary means, face geographical challenges, or have restricted entry to know-how the means to pursue their research by eradicating a few of the boundaries.
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“The schooling system should prioritize flexibility, inclusivity and alignment with numerous trade calls for,” Maestrecampo stresses. “Our purpose isn’t solely to offer learners from various backgrounds with entry to schooling but additionally to make sure their success by [equipping them with] competencies and abilities which can be extremely sought-after within the world job market. To perform this, we require a platform that allows studying past the constraints of conventional campus-based applications.” — CONTRIBUTED
