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15th National eLearning Conference 2021

This year’s Conference is unprecedented on so many levels. This is the first for PeLS to hold the conference in a VIRTUAL environment! The global health crisis of 2020 pushed humanity into unconventional ways of doing things. The pandemic shook economies, affected businesses, and created a huge disruption in the education system. Even the most developed countries had to shift and are continually shifting strategies in every possible and swift way. The education sector had to speed up its adjustment to the new way of teaching and learning.

Policy makers, education professionals, school administrators, teachers, learners and parents had to come up with creative ways to cope up with the crisis as rapidly as possible. Hence this year, the conference aims to curate real life experiences, identify the best practices, celebrate successes and learn from shortcomings in order to fill in the gaps and come up with workable solutions. On the bright side of things, the crisis has stimulated innovation on a wider scale. We will also attempt to look at the digital upsurge in the education sector and make sense of all these.

Specifically, The Conference Aims To Be A Venue For Free Discourses On:
  • the most crucial and pressing needs in the education sector while navigating the new normal;
  • redesigning better system of education to meet the needs of all the stakeholders;
  • timely policy reforms to address the challenges and prepare stakeholders for a future-proof education system;
  • the need to deal with issues such as mental health, accessibility, social divide, educational inequality brought about by the on-going global health issues and beyond.

PeLS 17th Founding Anniversary!

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​In celebration of our 17th founding anniversary, we sincerely thank our past and present Officers, Board of Trustees, and dear members for your continued patronage over the years for making the Philippine eLearning Society the premier organization that spearheads the advancement of eLearning in the Philippines. Cheers to 17th glorious years of professional partnership!

Announcing our new logo and look!

Cristin Porcadilla-Arante
Auditor, PeLS
Today, after fourteen years, we’re proud to show our updated trademark which includes a new logo, colors, and font. You’ll see the change anywhere we’re out in public like our website, Facebook, other social media, and collaterals. We believe the new look better matches what we’ve become since 2003: serving as a venue for “Promoting research on the effective use of eLearning, Sharing of eLearning experiences, Developing standards of excellence, Promoting interoperability of eLearning systems, Encouraging collaboration in the development of substantive content, Cooperating with international eLearning groups, and Promoting public awareness and appreciation of the nature and uses of eLearning.”

By sticking to our mission - “PeLS exists to lead the development of eLearning competencies through education and training and to promote collaboration among eLearning practitioners”, we also convey our constant effort in doing better with the evolving society. Needless to say, it is now time for a change. Along with this, we commend the designer of our new logo.
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​The colors used in the logo represents the colors of the Philippine flag where the organization is based and founded.

The upper left component of the logo, a laptop and the internet of things shows the use of information and communications technology as a delivery tool or media to enhance learning, thus electronic learning was born.

The upper right component of the logo, a book which represents learning and while the pages of the book (happy people) illustrates collaboration among the different people and organization of both the academe and the industry sector in ensuring the progression of learning and eLearning in the Philippines.
The lower component of the logo, the rays of the sun (arrows) that represents promotion and advancement of eLearning to start in the three island groups (the three stars) of the Philippines and eventually to all members of ASEAN community and the rest of the world (represented by the circle encompassing the three components). Another reason why this component sits at the bottom of the two other components because it serves to remind its members that the very foundation why this society was form is – to promote and ensure the advancement of eLearning in the Philippines.
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The text on the right indicates the name of the organization. (Font used Suissnord for PELS and AvantGarde Md BT for Philippine eLearning Society.)
Lastly, the logo is a purely vector-based graphic and has no bitmap component, this ensures that the logo will not pixelate or lose quality when resized. Furthermore the logo does not contain any special effect (i.e. shadow, emboss, creative transformation, etc).
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