THE Department of Education (DepEd) announced that it has made its online learning delivery platform DepEd Commons more inclusive as it expanded its features to cater to private school students. Starting as an online educational platform supporting alternative learning modalities due to the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) period, DepEd Commons expanded its availability to all schools offering basic education starting this month. Briones also said that welcoming private school learners to DepEd Commons is a good example of the constitutional provision on the complementarity of public and private education. Aside from learners in the formal education system, DepEd Commons has populated its content with relevant lessons for the Alternative Learning System (ALS) program. Undersecretary Alain Pascua said that the Open Educational Resources (OER) and teacher-made enrichment activities on the online educational platform has currently reached to 3,513,442 unique users.

Source: Manila Times April 09, 2020 05:03 UTC