DIRECTING ALL CONCERNED AGENCIES TO IMMEDIATELY IMPLEMENT EDUCATIONAL MODERNIZATION PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES THROUGH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT), PARTICULARLY IN THE APPLICATION …
up-to-date educational reforms, as well as developing IT-related
teaching methods and processes at all school levels to improve the
effectivity of the national teaching and learning processes, all
concerned agencies directly related to education, including state
universities and colleges, are hereby directed to utilize IT-based
strategies in the implementation of their educational modernization
projects and activities. Emphasis is placed in the application of said
schemes in the major phases of the educational institutions’ operations,
instruction, research, extension, management and support.
Furthermore, in the implementation of such projects and activities,
the concerned agencies and institutions shall rationalize the
utilization of their existing resources and services to promote priority
education projects and activities such as the open system of education,
the operation of distance education, and the development and
interconnection of information resource centers, tele-mentoring, on-line
group discussions, electronic discussion lists and electronic
billboards.
In order to avoid duplication or overlapping in the use of IT
resources, and thereby harmonize and provide a sharing policy among the
various educational programs of concerned institutions, close
consultation and coordination among them must be maintained utilizing,
as practicable as possible, the interconnection provided through the
Internet. By virtue of their manpower expertise and comparative edge in
resources vis-a-vis other agencies, the higher educational institutions
are hereby enjoined to provide the leadership and direction in
implementing the provisions of this directive.
All concerned agencies and institutions shall utilize all means
possible, subject to existing laws, rules and regulations, in order to
raise the necessary funding support for the above projects and agencies,
including, but not limited to, the utilization of their respective
agency appropriations and the formulation of Build-Operate-and-Transfer
(BOT) or Lease-Buy schemes and other joint-venture undertakings.
February 2, 2000.
Adopted: 02 Feb. 2000
By the President:
(SGD.) RONALDO B. ZAMORA
Executive Secretary