From UPOU-MyPortal Student Orientation
I’m sure you are all excited to know more about your University! You probably have hundreds of questions in your mind about UPOU and about online learning. Many of you, if not all, are products of the traditional brick and mortar classrooms and universities wherein you have to physically meet your teachers every day or every week. So how do we do it here at UPOU? Before we answer that, let us first try to find out some facts about UPOU.
So let us start by discovering UPOU’s history, the reason for its establishment and its role in the country’s social transformation.
On 23 February 1995, the University of the Philippines (UP) Board of Regents approved the establishment of the UP Open University (UPOU) as the fifth autonomous constituent unit of the UP System. UPOU was established to address the demand for quality higher education especially in areas which are not reached by a UP campus.
UPOU’s mandate is to provide wider access to quality higher education to Filipinos everywhere. To know more about UPOU’s history, vision, mission, goals and values, visit this link: http://www.upou.edu.ph/about-us
Source: https://myportal.upou.edu.ph/