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A. K. T. Marcial et al. · Sustainable Institution Building for Open Learning (SIBOL) Initiative

- University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU), Philippines

Sustainable Institution Building for Open Learning

(SIBOL) Initiative - University of the Philippines Open

University (UPOU), Philippines

Ana Katrina T. Marcial, Patricia B. Arinto, Ria Mae H. Borromeo,

Primo G. Garcia, Luisa A. Gelisan, Margaret J. Suarez,

Maria Rowena D.R. Raymundo, Rhonna Marie R. Vereña 9

Introduction

The Philippines’ Open and Distance Learning Act or Republic Act (RA) 10650,

enacted in 2014, tasks the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU)
with providing leadership, capacity building, and other forms of technical

assistance to the Philippine Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Technical

Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), and higher education
institutions (HEIs) in the Philippines in implementing open and distance learning

(ODL) programmes to address the limitations and challenges of traditional,
face-to-face instruction (see Figure 13). As part of its mandate under RA 10650 to

help promote open learning as an educational philosophy and distance education
as an “appropriate, e cient, and e ective system of delivery” in Philippine higher

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To cite: Marcial, A. K. T., Arinto, P. B., Borromeo, R. M. H., Garcia, P. G., Gelisan, L. A.,
Suarez, M. J., Raymundo, M. R. D. R., & Vereña, R. M. R. (2023). Sustainable Institution
Building for Open Learning (SIBOL) initiative - University of the Philippines Open
University (UPOU), Philippines. In H. Teräs & J. Brunton (Eds.), Reimagining higher
education: Case studies on designing for inclusion, equity, and access in the BUKA project. BUKA
Project: Advancing Equity and Access to Higher Education Through Open and Distance
Learning. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8427632

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