QUALITY CSU EDUCATION THROUGH THE LENS OF PRESIDENT TEJADA

By Office of the University President

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Posted on July 9, 2020

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To respond to the delivery of accessible Quality Education to students amid the pandemic, President Tejada conceptualized the CSU LENS as a strategy in the conduct of distance blended learning for CSU. CSU LENS, which stands for Learning Environment Network System caused her to initiate a Syllabi Writeshop and Calibration with the theme, “CSU Transitioning to Blended Learning” at the Claude Andrews Convention Center today, July 8, 2020.

President Tejada tapped resource speaker Dr. Giged T. Battung, a former E-Learning, Distance, and Transnational Director at St. Paul University Philippines to share her expertise through her lecture “Academics Transitioning to Flexible Learning”.

In her lecture, Dr. Battung lectured on the possible types of Flexible Learning arrangements that faculty members and students can engage in, with a lens on making connectivity relevant to education in the new normal. She also highlighted Digital Transformation by optimizing technology to bring about graduate outcomes. She also suggested various strategies that are practiced by other universities to maximize the potential of the Learning Management System (LMS) that CSU chooses to employ this coming semester.

Dr. Battung said that the pandemic must be seen as “a source of breakthrough” where the syllabus becomes more student centered with focus on the availability of their resources as well as providing them a choice based on their convenience and capability.

University President Urdujah A. Tejada in her Inspirational Speech highlighted on the significance of looking for new lenses to deliver alternative ways of teaching and learning for the students.

The participants for the writeshop included Academic Coordinators, Academic Deans, and MIS Coordinators from all 8 campuses who were accordingly acknowledged by Dr. Lirio Gudina C. Mangawil, the Director for Instruction and welcomed by Dr. Mariden V. Cauilan, Vice President for Academic Affairs.

President Tejada, after a series of consulations with other members of the Execom and Mancom and after tapping resource speakers to help strongly establish the LENS, urges the Academic Department to work double time to ensure that quality education is delivered to each and every student this coming semester.

A series of workshops and consultations for faculty members and MIS groups will continue for the efficient conduct of CSU LENS before it is oficially implemented on August 17, 2020 as classes open.