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| Knowledge Channel enters alternative learning space |
 KNOWLEDGE Channel Foundation Inc. (KCFI) laid the foundation for its entry into the alternative learning sector as volunteers became mobile teachers for one day, in cooperation with the Bureau of Alternative Learning System (BALS) of the Department of Education.Education Secretary Armin Luistro, FSC, KCFI chairman Oscar M. Lopez (OML), BALS director Carolina Guerrero and Lopez Group Foundation Inc. president Rafael M. Alunan III on July 23 saw off 25 volunteer mobile teachers led by KCFI president Rina Lopez-Bautista in a program hosted by Jaen, Nueva Ecija Mayor Santiago Austria. Nueva Ecija-based mobile teachers guided six teams of volunteers to provide them with firsthand experience of mobile teaching work in the towns of Pantabangan, Guimba, Gabaldon, General Natividad, Jaen and Bongabon. The teams fieldtested prototypes of the KCh LITE or Knowledge Channel Light Instructional Tool for Educators beta edition, a netbook computer that contains KCFI curriculum-based videos and digital learning materials. The KCh LITE is among the proposed tools for delivering alternative learning under the Out-of-school Youth and Mature Learners Alternative Learning Institute (OMLALI), a project conceptualized during the April 2010 celebration of the 80th birthday of OML, concurrent chairman emeritus of the Lopez Group. Funding for the initial production of OMLALI instructional materials and pilot KCh LITE packages were provided by Lopez Holdings Corporation and First Philippine Holdings Corporation. Luistro commended the innovation and energy that KCFI will bring into the alternative learning space and expressed hope that the contemplated project will be sustained until all 1,500 mobile teachers under BALS can be equipped with sufficient tools to significantly raise the performance of outof- school and mature learners. Lopez-Bautista assured the DepEd head that the one-day activity to expose volunteers to the life of mobile teachers is just the beginning of a long-term partnership for the benefit of 36 million Filipinos, including five million youth, who have not finished formal schooling. BALS and KCFI’s partner institutions are ABS-CBN Bayan Academy and Adtel Inc. Bayan Academy will be the main resource for social entrepreneurship and livelihood and skills training for adult learners while Adtel will provide solar panels that will be add-on features of KCh LITE packages for communities with no electricity. Comments (0)
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