The breakout room session’s theme was “Teaching and Learning GE”, and had 3 speakers, two of whom talked about the UP Manila GE course HPEd 20 Learning for Teaching, while the 3rd speaker discussed the UP Diliman GE course Disaster Risk Mitigation, Adaptation, and Preparedness Strategies (DRMAPS).

Dr. Maria Lourdes Dorothy Salvacion of NTTCHP, UP Manila, discussed the results of a collective case study research which described the experience of HPEd 20 students from 2018 – 2020, and how various instructional events, such as groupwork and topics that had direct relevance to their college educational experience, paved the way for transformative learning. She described the assessment structures, which consisted of summative and formative components, and included unlimited, 2 – way feedback. Assessment activities also included self- and peer-assessment of groupwork; essentially, assessment as part of the learning process. Altogether, students reported that this “transformative assessment” greatly increased their appreciation of the course as well as removed most of the stresses that would otherwise be inherent in the course.

Dr. Erlyn Sana, also of NTTCHP, UP Manila, discussed the role of open educational resources, or OERs, in HPEd 20. OERs refer to free, legally accessible and open-for-use materials that may be utilized by students, which may be revised and remixed as needed. Dr. Sana shared the results of a collective case study about the experiences of students in HPEd 20 from 2018 – 2020. Data were obtained from all of the students’ outputs accessed through the course learning management system. The OERs used were curated by the course instructor and built into the 3 units of instruction. OERS were actively incorporated in course activities, such as movie watching, accomplishment of inventories, articles/books reviews, and character identification. The incorporation of OERs greatly contributed to the transformative learning experiences of HPEd 20 students.

Dr. Mark Zarco of the Division of Educational Leadership and Professional Services, College of Education, UP Diliman, is the coordinator for the GE course Disaster Risk Mitigation, Adaptation, and Preparedness Strategies (DRMAPS), which can be considered as an alternative to STS. Since its inception, multiple sections are convened into large classes collectively handled by an interdisciplinary teaching team using the flipped-learning version of the blended-learning model, and during the pandemic, utilized UVLe as the learning management system. In recent years there has been a massive increase in student interest and enrolment, which has led their team to consider shifting from the current blended instruction format to a fully online one, and to offer it as a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). Offering the course as a MOOC would

make DRMAPS accessible to a larger audience, for example, students from other CUs, as well as make course delivery more resilient. However, many challenges need to be considered, such as administrative concerns on faculty loading, grading, as well as how to delineate residential and MOOC versions of DRMAPS.