THE DEPARTMENT of Education called on experts and other stakeholders to help design the future learning spaces of learners.

“We are making an open call for submission of studies on future learning spaces as part of the co-creation and knowledge-building process, and the identification of existing best practices and implementation of models of integrated learning spaces to unlock, connect, replicate and scale future learning spaces and create system-level change,” Education Secretary Leonor Briones said during the celebration of the 2022 International Day of Education.

“These spaces will help our learners thrive, learn, and adapt to challenges while learning. For DepEd, these spaces should be built with the ideas, resources, and help from its stakeholders,” Briones added.

In her speech, the education chief shared that the DepEd’s Education Futures Program has been collaborating with experts and stakeholders to co-create the design for learning spaces that will benefit the learners in the future.

“From parents who guided their children during modular and blended learning to the Local Government Units that provided the equipment and connectivity needed by their learners, they all are part of the gains that the Department has realized,” Briones noted.

She also acknowledged the need for learners to go back to school.

“The pilot testing of the face-to-face classes and its expansion phase will introduce a learning recovery wherein the schools can open their doors again as the course of learning will change due to the innovations made during the blended learning phase,” Briones said.

“Amid the challenges, we are at the threshold of great education transformation. Covid19 has compelled us to look again at the broader learning ecosystem beyond the confines of physical classrooms,” she added.