By Cyrus A. Natividad
CPU Senior High School Principal, Prof. Edgar Eriman, gives a comment on the LMS of CPU.
Education has a significant role in the socio-economic stability of a child, a family, and even the nation. It is this sentiment that demand for the government and health updates on the pandemic is on a moment by moment basis. For the Filipino family, the future of their child is at stake. Between face-to-face and online instruction, parents, teachers – and students themselves have preferences.
The flexibility in attending classes on virtual platforms may have allowed students to be accommodated at a time and location that are convenient for them. The online instruction has grown ever since. The pandemic has already changed educational systems for students throughout the country. The traditional face-to-face classes, however, never left off, in the conventional-cultural framework.
Central Philippine University has implemented its Learning Management Systems (LMS) after a careful study. There are periodic evaluations with the students and faculty in order to improve the system. The bottom line is that the Administration wants everyone to be safe while continuing their studies.
The Weekly Centralian Link asked for comments from our faculty, staff and alumni on their reception or perceptions regarding the online versus traditional (face to face) classroom instruction.
Here are the comments:
“CPU has followed the right protocol on the new learning system. Of course, we cannot disregard reservations from parents and even the students. There must be adjustments and difficulties for both the parents and the school. Between the online classes and the traditional classroom however, let us consider safety first, for our children and everyone.”
ATTY. JOSHUA C. ALIM
President, CPU Alumni Association
“First, we live and work in a changing world. The development in education now – that is the online learning system may have affected everyone, but we have also been given the opportunity to learn more and discover that we have greater capacities than we have ever known. The only thing that allows us to fail in this ‘competition’ is our hesitation to learn anew.”
“However in the field of sciences, students need to be exposed to laboratory, although we have to conform to safety protocols and adhere to our leaders whose chosen alternative is the on-line learning System. We are in support of the prescribed learning platforms and of the health protocols required at Central Philippine University.”
DR. STELLA G. FERNANDEZ
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
“Our responsibility over personal comfort overcomes the reservations on the implementation of Online Learning System. We have positive outcomes on the implementation of the new learning system. Yes, there are reservations on some parents, students and teachers as well, but it is understood that our students and everyone here deserve the right alternative. We fully support the administration’s implementation of the new Learning Management System in CPU.”
PROF. EDGAR A. ERIMAN
Principal, CPU Senior High School
“There is no other option but to follow on what is really important, in the new learning system for our Senior High School students. It is the safety of our students and everyone that is at stake. We are grateful that our administration has effectively implemented the online system.”
PROF. COY G. NIEVALES
SHS Assistant Principal
“My work at the CPU Information Center includes listening to enrolees and the parents as well. Here is where I receive comments and opinions on the “better or the best” of Online learning and the traditional ‘Face-to-face’ classroom instruction. Other opinions relate to my being a student also. Indeed, there are difficulties and differences if we compare the old and new way of attending classes; I should say, it is better to be safe at all. There is no difference between a hundred affected by the virus and only one affected by it.”
INA BERNALES
Office of Communications
As a teacher of political science, I may have a philosophical but general concept of how theories and realities are brought across to the students. Looking back to the early age of education, Plato, Aristotle and the rest of the exemplars required face to face lectures for their students even if their classes were held only in public places and even under the trees. However, for our online system of education, there’ll be no more excuses when it comes to safety protocols for our students -owing to the effect of COVID pandemic. Therefore, let us “adhere to the health protocols; in particular to the CPU administration’s options and policies.”
PROF. ERIC C.OTAYDE
Department of Social Sciences, CPU