The initiative for mobile education aims to provide the out-of-school youths – particularly those in underserved areas and geographically isolated communities – with additional opportunities to access education, including technical vocational learning, via mobile devices.
Collaboration between DepEd, TESDA and other support agencies facilitated this mobile education believing that this could be an ideal vehicle to provide opportunities for learning and training that would otherwise be inaccessible in a country with numerous islands, particularly to those young people for whom the cost of attending classes or training in person is prohibitive . With this partnership, it is deemed that more out-of-school youths will be able to be reintegrated into their communities through innovative programmes and services designed to support them, helping to address the issue of young people leaving school early.
Mobile technology is uniquely positioned to help bring education solutions to learners, including out-of-school youths in the Philippines. This approach to learning-teaching is one of the alternative modes of delivering education services to learners who are outside the formal school system making education accessible to all Filipino learners.
Mobile education is a program involving government agencies and all mobile network operators across the K-12 spectrum to provide up to one million Filipino out-of-school youths access to education. They are working together to make mobile technologies a more pervasivetool to help enhance Philippine education
This development will seek to improve the quality of life of Filipinos by raising the level of literacy in target communities such as out-of-school youth and working individuals who have no access to formal classroom learning. Initiatives, such as this, especially involving multi-stakeholder partnership, will drive even greater growth and help to accelerate achievement of the desired objectives for such programmes. The strengthened collaboration between mobile operators and government agencies will surely create opportunities that address barriers in the delivery of education.
By: Florenda C. Fabico | Teacher I | Mariveles National High School – Poblacion | Mariveles, Bataan
