<span>The emergence of cloud computing (CC) adoption in higher education institutions (HEIs) is considered widespread today. Its growth comes with tremendous benefits and potential risks as well. This paper endeavors to investigate some issues and challenges that influence the adoption of cloud computing among state universities and colleges (SUCs) in the Philippines. A qualitative design was used in the study as it employed multiple case studies approach. Based on the results, this paper establishes two strong factors such as slow internet connection and lack of understanding or awareness of cloud computing. The findings revealed the impact of cloud computing to SUCs is found beneficial to the educational system amidst the global pandemic. Professors can easily upload lessons and teaching materials while students can easily access the materials online, though the challenge lies in the connectivity of internet in the country. Administrators can easily collaborate with the entire academic community and even to its stakeholder’s potential for collaboration even if not in face to face. It is a perfect avenue to be productive and efficient which allows all processes be made possible to all members of the entire academic community, may it be students, professors, staff and even other stakeholders.</span>
The forerunners and the backbone of the academe are the ones who understand his/ her own passion in the teaching practice. The instructors who did the dirty jobs in the classrooms and who fosters the modest means of living, live-up to the dynamism of the educational system, honing his/ her own skills by teaching and learning-the non-teachers by profession; but, by accident become a teacher in the classroom of entrepreneurs and hoteliers in the College of Business and Management of Surigao del Sur State University. The phenomenological study is used to examine the preparedness of the teachers in the teaching job, identify the teaching strategies commonly used to teach the course and point out the current burden encountered in terms of work, students, colleagues and superior. This paper analyzes the common themes and implications of the lived experiences of the instructors. It highlights the following themes: varying level of preparedness, the simulation and demonstration, lecture and discussion and reporting method are commonly used as classroom strategies. The challenges and burden encountered by the instructors: teaching profession is full of challenges, in work, kind of students, individual difference and background of the colleagues and autocratic and traditional leadership style of superiors. The results entail future endeavors for seminars on teaching strategies, and seminars on coping with stress in the workplace, as such, develop healthy life style and ensure efficient and effective instructors in the College of Business and Management.
Mother tongue as first language is the language a person is exposed to and acquired during the early years of child-hood and which normally becomes his natural instrument of thought and communication according to UNESCO, 1953 as cited by Charanchi (2011). The study focuses on the perception of the teachers, pupils and parents in the use of Sugbuanong Binisaya as medium of instruction and use Sugbuanong Textbooks provided by DepEd; the necessity of Mother Tongue or the Sugbuanong Binisaya as a medium of instruction; the language preference of the pupils and teachers as a medium of instruction; and the problems met by the teachers, pupils and parents in the implementation of mother tongue education. The study used a quantitative and qualitative research. The instrument was adopted from the study of Afzal Shadi (2013). It was revised and translated into Filipino language to answer the objectives of the current study. A mean and percentage score was utilized to analyze the data. The grade 2 teachers and grade 2 pupils were the subject of the study. Based on the findings of the study, the use of Sugbuanong Binisaya in the teaching and learning in the classroom is not effective because both teachers and pupils found difficulty in using the language. Therefore, the use of Sugbuanong Binisaya as MTB-MLE in grade 2 pupils of Falcon Memorial Elementary School shall be definitely suspended because it does not help pupils to develop their skills particularly speaking, writing, listening and reading. Hence, it is the hindrance to grade 2 pupils’ and teachers’ understanding. KEYWORDS: Sugbuanong Binisaya, language, MTB-MLE, classroom, discussion
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