Dualtech Implements Flexible Learning

When the pandemic struck and everything ground to a halt, Dualtech could not stand still. Company partners were returning trainees by the droves. All of a sudden, Dualtech had around 1600 students to house, feed and train.

In swift fashion, Dualtech mobilized its teachers and staff to altered to the boys. Together with food training boards, tools, learning materials and electronic gadgets were distributed to the different boarding houses for the scholars to use. The computer-based learning modules, which Dualtech has been using for decades in-campus, were modified and placed for the students to access off-campus. This was the beginning of flexible learning.

Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) came out with a circular detailing how Flexible Learning is to be implemented.

December 2020, Dualtech was issued a Certificate of Recognition (CoR) to conduct Flexible Learning in its campus. A Certificate of Recognition was issued to Dualtech for its compliance with all the requirements for flexible learning mode and has the capacity to deliver the registered program through the preferred flexible learning mode.

Flexible Learning refers to the provision of a range of learning modes or methods giving learners greater choice of when, where and how they learn. The Flexible Learning Delivery Modes may include Face-to-Face Learning; Online Learning; Blended Learning; Distance Learning; or combination of Distance Learning and Face-to-Face Learning.

A year since receiving the CoR, Flexible Learning is well entrenched in Dualtech. The knowledge contents were delivered and learned via online platforms with the aid of offline eLearning technology while the skills components are delivered and learned at the workshop areas of Dualtech. This mode is preferred for Dualtech modules that cannot be fully delivered online due to the requirement for large and/or complicated learning equipment.

In the case of Dualtech, the first few months of the student is pure on-line learning. The student does not need to leave the house. Only when the student has acquired the knowledge content does he report to school.

Dualtech scholars have graduated in spite of the setbacks of the health crisis. Enrollment is up. In-plant trainees are in demand. Dualtech has proven resilient against educational disruptions and responding to the challenges of the digital learning environment. Dualtech maintains quality in the delivery and development of modalities necessary to facilitate access to Electromechanics Technology training.

Dualtech continues to accept enrollees. Dualtech also welcomes donations for scholarships, education subsidy, and living allowance or for items such as used smartphones or tablets or laptops. Visit the website at www.dualtech.org.ph and click on the donate button for more information.