Capability Assessment of the CBSUA Graduate School for a Distance Education

Mode of Teaching and Learning

Lorena F. HernandezAsuncion A. Orbeso

CBSUA

• The bill converting the CSSAC into a state university has been finally signed by the President, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo last October 12, 2009 under RA 9717.

• With this development, the college is facing more challenges in terms of providing quality education that shall cater clients in the entire region.

• The challenges of the 21st century and the teaching and learning practices and the process of schooling are reinvented in order to prepare individuals to be technologically literate, critically thinking and an innovative workforce.

• Emerging technologies of distance learning can have a positive effect on the educational system if we recognize that change is a journey, not a blueprint and that the development of new skills, behaviors and beliefs is a complex process that must embrace the problems inherent in change.

General Objective of the Study

• The Central Bicol State University of Agriculture Graduate School for a distance education mode of teaching and learning in the MS and PhD Development Education programs

Specific Objectives1. Determine the CBSUA’s institutional capabilities for a

distance education mode of teaching and learning for MS and PhD Development Education along:

a) human resources –faculty and administrators in terms of knowledge skills

b) physical resources in terms of building, equipment and facilities, learning resource center

c) ICT based instructional materials; and d) Assessment instruments/tools for students and teachers in

terms of teaching-learning process?

Specific Objectives2. Determine the characteristic features of the distance education for MS and

PhD Development Education program as perceived by the students, faculty and administrators

3. Assess feasibility and sustainability of offering MS and PhD Development Education in a distance education mode of teaching and learning

4. Recommend measures to strengthen capabilities of the college to offer distance education

Theoretical Model

LEVEL INDEPENDENT INTERVENING DEPENDENT

Theoretical Innovation Access to Education

Conceptual Distance Education Mode of Curricular Offering

Teaching and Learning

Institutional Capability BuildingPhysical resourcesHuman resourcesICT based Instructional MaterialsICT based Assessment Tools

Operational Exposure to Distance Study Mode Rate of Adoption

Conceptual Framework

INPUT THRUPUT OUTPUT

Methodology

• Bicol Region

Research Location

Data CollectionCapability Assessment •Physical resources – Survey Questionnaire

•Human Resources – Survey Questionnaire

Feasibility Study •Perception of Stakeholders – Interview and Survey•Focus Group Discussion

Capability Building •Development and Validation of ICT Based Instructional Materials•Development of Assessment Tools for Distance Education Modality

Data Analysis

• Weighted mean• Reliability and Validity Tests• Return On Investment

Budgetary RequirementsSERVICES BUDGETHonorarium

Project Leader (P4,000.00/mo) P 48,000.00

Team Member (3,000.00/mo) P 36,000.00

Support Staff (2,000.00/mo) P 24,000.00

Mentor P 10,000.00

Travel Expenses P 30,000.00

Communication P 10,000.00

Sub-Total P 158,000.00

Budgetary RequirementSUPPLIES BUDGETBond Paper P 15,000.00

Ink P 10,000.00

Flash Drive P 7,000.00

CD/DVD P 10,000.00

P 42,000.00

TOTAL P 200,000.00

Thank you

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