relevance of distance learning education program

1. What is the relevance of distance learning education program to the present needs of the society?

A need for educational opportunities that transcend constraints in geography, time and resources is being answered increasingly by distance education in the Philippines.

Some of the significant findings are that:

1. Single female peers, unmarried male workers are least likely to be fully employed. This is possibly because Filipino families tend to rely least on sons for financial support. In part, it may also be due to the fact that, as Alonzo et al (1996) found, in the Philippines, married women tend to remain in the labor force during their childbearing years;
2. For women and single men, the probabilities of unemployment and visible underemployment decrease with age, whereas the probabilities of invisible underemployment and full employment increase with age. For married men, the probabilities of unemployment and visible underemployment are higher for older workers whereas the probabilities of invisible underemployment and full employment are lower. A possible reason for this rather unexpected result for married men is that, as they get older, the more able among them may be moving out of wage-earning activities and into self-employment
3. Each additional year of high school increases the probabilities of unemployment invisible underemployment, and full employment, but decreases the probability of visible underemployment. Each year spent in college increases the probabilities of unemployment and full employment, but decreases the probabilities of visible and invisible underemployment;
4. The presence of elderly household members has a negative impact upon a worker’s being invisibly underemployed or fully employed and a positive impact upon his being visibly underemployed or unemployed

1. How does the school evaluate the distance education program?

Evaluation in education has had a summative focus, seeking to assemble information on which to is to make judgment about the worth of some activity, tool or program. Judgments have traditionally been made by experts, people from outside the organization who can look objectively at the situation.

This evaluation involves assessment of student responses against a given criteria model. There are a number of evaluation models and frameworks for analyzing the content of discussion lists with each related to a theoretical perspective. As it was desirable to determine the cognitive level at which students’ constructed new knowledge.

References:

http://www.magandangbalita.com/blog/2006/01/13/distance-education-in-the-“real”-world-the-upou-and-the-uvle-experience/

itlawjournal.arellanolaw.net/

pascn.pids.gov.ph/DiscList/d03/s03-02.pdfs