Massive Open Distance eLearning (MODeL)

MODeL is the official platform of the University of the Philippines Open University for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Our courses are free and open to everyone. The courses we offer vary in topics such as Open Distance e-Learning, Teaching and Learning, Child Rights Protection and Promotion, Sustainable Development, Business Analytics, and many more.

You may check this link to see our updated calendar for this year:  https://model.upou.edu.ph/mod/page/view.php?id=2292. You may also go to our website, and scroll down to featured courses. 

All of our courses are self-paced, so you may complete them at your own convenience. Each MOOC may require an average of three hours of study time per week.

Courses run for three to eight weeks.

No. This is UPOU's platform for MOOCs.

Yes. You may put your participation in this MOOC in your resume or CV as a 16-hour training.

When courses end, we usually archive them so they become hidden. This allows the course coordinator to evaluate the submissions received in the course without any distractions and changes in the course site. This also limits students from submitting outputs beyond the deadline. 

Yes. Our MOOCs are endorsed by CHED. You may also read about Republic Act 10650 to see how UP Open University is at the forefront of distance education in the country.

Unfortunately, CPD Units are not yet in place for our MOOCs at this time. But you may apply for them to be credited as part of your CPD under Self-Directed Learning at PRC (Professional Regulation Commission) offices. Furthermore, we encourage you to include these courses in your resume or CV as a 16-hour training.

We use a variety of resources in various media such as videos, podcasts, and electronic print materials. Activities are also varied per course but you can expect some quizzes and assignments.

We rarely provide extensions for our courses since everything is already scheduled per year. In cases where we have to extend a course, it will be decided by the course coordinator first.

You can visit the website from time to time or wait for announcements on our Facebook Page: UPOU Massive Open Distance e-Learning

Follow these steps to register in MODeL and enroll in the MOOCs you like:

1. Fill out this registration form: https://bit.ly/upoumodel_signup
   
2. Take note that an email containing your login credentials will only be sent on THURSDAYS of every week. The cut-off for each week is 4 PM, Wednesdays. Requests received after the cut-off will be sent the following week. 
3. To ensure prompt receipt of your login credentials, please ensure that your email address is active and that your inbox has sufficient space available.
4. Upon receiving the email, sign in to your new MODeL account. 
5. You will be asked to change your password. Create a strong password that you don't use for any other websites.
6. Browse through our website homepage, and select the course you want to enroll in. (Note: Self-enrollment usually starts two weeks before the start of the course.)

All of our MOOCs are free and open to all. 

Yes. Our courses are free and open to all.

Yes. All of our MOOCs are free and open to all. 

No. Anyone from anywhere can access our courses.

To enroll in the courses, you can go to the homepage and scroll down to Featured Courses or MOOC Categories. From here, you can choose the courses you are interested in. Click on the title of the course so that you can get in.

To know which courses you are enrolled in, go to My Dashboard. The button is located at the center of our webpage banner.

You may only enroll when the course opens for enrollment. 

To unenroll yourself in a course, click "More" and choose "Unenrol Me from <course title>".  It will lead to a confirmation message. Just click “Continue” and you’re done.

If the course permits you to enroll, you can do that. However, the contents of courses that have already ended are most likely inaccessible.

Courses with enrollment keys are not open to the public or require registration to be manually enrolled in the course.

Yes. You can enroll again. There are no limitations to the number of times you enroll in a course.

We issue a certificate to completers at least two weeks after the end of the course. For more information, kindly read this: https://model.upou.edu.ph/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=19854

The easiest way to see if you have already completed is to check if your progress bar is already at 100%. However, there are times when the teacher has to acknowledge your submissions first so that they can be marked as complete. The best way is still for you to check manually if you did not forget anything.

More often, the easiest way to know that you are qualified to get the certificate is that you should have been able to submit the requirements needed to pass the course. You should also receive a passing grade on the assignments and quizzes. It is actually easier to determine the reasons that you may NOT be qualified:

1. You did not complete the requirements.

2. You did not carefully follow the directions. (See "item f1" under this topic)

3. You did not provide the right answer to the questions in the activities or your explanation is not valuable enough.

4. You committed plagiarism.

5. You copied your answers from somewhere or someone else.

The certificate will usually be issued at least two weeks after the course duration. Time may vary depending on the number of students.

If you don’t complete a course, you will not be able to get a certificate of completion.

There are many possible reasons why your progress bar is not moving.

1. You did not follow the instructions to submit. For example, the direction says to post a discussion for your first requirement and reply to your discussion to submit your second requirement. If you did not follow the directions accurately, the system will not mark your submission as complete.
2. You did not pass the quiz. If you did not pass a quiz, it should have a red circle mark opposite its title.
3. You forgot to mark yourself as complete. Some courses have activities that require you to manually mark yourself as complete. These are activities that have a gray circle with a checkmark on the upper left part. When you click this, it will become a green circle with a checkmark.
4. You haven’t received a grade for a particular activity. Some activities require the teacher to manually acknowledge your submission.

The prerequisite of being a distance learner is to adjust yourself to automated assessment. You have to be able to think about how a machine (usually run by artificial intelligence), rather than how a human, will read your answers. You have to be able to satisfy the machine logic rather than human emotion or logic. You have to think, “how do I satisfy the machine so that it counts my answers right?” One way is to provide the accurate words and phrases mentioned in the course.

While we recognize the limitations of automatic assessments run by artificial intelligence, for open online courses such as this one, this is just the first in the process and in no way dictates the decision of whether a participant satisfactorily meets the course requirements or not (thus, shall be given a completion badge/ certificate). The faculty course coordinators, at the end of the MOOC offering, still conduct the monitoring and double-checking of a participant's course activities before a completion certificate is released.

In terms of learning, regardless of the result of the automatic assessments, it is our hope that the open nature of the educational resources prepared and used for the MOOCs may also prove helpful for the participants as their study independently and or with the rest of the lifelong learners in the MOOCs.

It depends on the requirement of the course. Contact your teacher.

The prerequisite of being a distance learner is to adjust yourself to automated assessment. You have to be able to think about how a machine (usually run by artificial intelligence), rather than how a human, will read your answers. You have to be able to satisfy the machine logic rather than human emotion or logic. You have to think, “how do I satisfy the machine so that it counts my answers right?” The technique is to provide accurate words and phrases mentioned in the course.

While we recognize the limitations of automatic assessments run by artificial intelligence, for open online courses such as this one, this is just the first in the process and in no way dictates the decision of whether a participant satisfactorily meets the course requirements or not (thus, shall be given a completion badge/ certificate). The faculty course coordinators, at the end of the MOOC offering, still conduct the monitoring and double-checking of a participant's course activities before a completion certificate is released.

In terms of learning, regardless of the result of the automatic assessments, it is our hope that the open nature of the educational resources prepared and used for the MOOCs may also prove helpful for the participants as their study independently and or with the rest of the lifelong learners in the MOOCs.

When a course is labeled as “Conditional”, it means that certain conditions have been set for it to be accessible. Usually, we use this to set the opening and closing dates of a course. When this is set, you can only access the contents for a certain period of time. 

You can choose to enroll in another course or just wait for the issuance of certificates.

Our certificates don't have a signature, however, you will see a QR code at the bottom left. The QR Code, when scanned, will direct you to a page where you can verify that you have completed the course. This is to prevent other people from reproducing the certificate and editing their name into it.

Since MyPortal and MODeL are different platforms, you have to create an account on both websites to avail of the services.

You can click on the Forgot Password button. This will send you to a new page where it will ask for your Username or email address. Supply the information needed. An email will be sent to you so that you can reset your password. If this does not work, send a message to model@upou.edu.ph

To edit your profile,

Yes. There is a moodle app that you can use.

Please be guided by this step-by-step instruction: https://model.upou.edu.ph/mod/page/view.php?id=1631