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COMPETE 2 Learning System Fora*

THE INTERNET ENHANCED COMPETE LEARNING MATERIALS were disseminated throughout the nation through a forum conducted at SEAMEO INNOTECH in two batches early in September this year.

The two batches of forum delegates composed of representatives from the seventeen (17) regional offices of the Department of Education, including officials of universities in some of the regions. The dissemination forums were sponsored by the UNESCO through its Participation Program.

The disseminated materials were the COMPETE learning materials revised to incorporate relevant multimedia formats. The delivery of these materials is through the internet, and through distance learning materials such as printed modules and videotapes.

The materials were tried out first at the Pangasinan State University involving 35 teachers as participants. The participants used New Internet Computers or NIC, donated by the ORACLE, in accomplishing the internet-based requirements of the modules.

Before being disseminated in a nationwide capacity, the materials went through several processes of modifying, revising and field-testing in selected universities in both urban and rural settings to test the workability of the internet features of the program. Among the validation sites were the Philippine Normal University in Manila, the Benguet State University in La Trinidad, Benguet, the Bicol University in Legazpi City, the Mariano Marcos State University in Laoag City, Ilocos Norte, and the University of Regina Carmeli in Malolos, Bulacan.

The COMPETE materials were distributed so that these may be used and reproduced as inputs in local in-service teacher training programs, or possibly for the implementation of the COMPETE learning system in the schools divisions.

Apart from this, the participants came up with action plans to institutionalize the COMPETE system in the divisions in collaboration with the universities and colleges in the different regions.

The Philippine-Australia Basic Education Assistance for Mindanao or BEAM, a DepEd project in regions XI, XII, and ARMM expressed interest in identifying possible means of linking Project COMPETE with its on-going endeavors to provide alternative modes of training teachers in the three target regions.

(*Source: COMPETE 2 Final Report)

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