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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 [...]

From UPOU-MyPortal Student OrientationNow let us talk about Open and Distance eLearning or ODeL.ODeL consists of three concepts or domains – open,distance and elearning, each of which has its own definition and origin.Distance education is any form of organized teaching and learning where student and teacher are physically separated and technology is used to bridge this physical and instructional gap.Open learning, on the other hand, is a vision of an educational system accessible to every individual with minimal restrictions. It emphasizes the flexibility of the system to eradicate problems caused by barriers like age, geographical location, time constraints and economic situation.E-learning [...]