Glossary of Terms

serve as visual representations of micro-credentials, symbolizing skill achievement and accomplishments

Source: TESDA Circular No. 077, s. 2024

refer to information available in digital format. It could be in the form of text, audio and video files, graphics, animations, and images. Typically, digital content refers to information available for streaming, downloading or distribution on electronic media.
Source: TESDA Circular No.062 s. 2017

the wide-scale use of digitization and digitalization in order to create a different environment and culture.
Source: Digitization, Through Digitalization, to Digital Transformation, researchgate.net

A series of deep and coordinated culture, workforce, and technology shifts that enable new educational and operating models and transform an institution’s operations, strategic directions, and value proposition

Source: Educause: "Dx: Digital Transformation of Higher Education"

the process of converting analog data into a digital one. An example of this is when an office worker scans a paper document to create a soft copy of it. (Digitization, Through Digitalization, to Digital Transformation, researchgate.net) the process of streamlining processes and making them more efficient through digital technologies. An example of this is when a business replaces its pen-and-paper registration forms with an online registration system.
Source: Digitization, Through Digitalization, to Digital Transformation, researchgate.net

are sets of program guidelines, parameters and rules that govern a specific program of education at PQF Level 5.  The Diploma Program standards are developed through stakeholders consultations with an industry association to adhere to industry standards and needs and with higher education institutions to articulate credit transfer

Source: TESDA Circular No. 039, s. 2024

any one of a number of measures permitting direct dealings between authorized entities and satellite system providers at specified levels as defined by the National Telecommunication Communications (NTC).
Source: Executive Order No. 127

refers to items of costs that are especially traced to or caused by training and include consumables used in the course of program, training supplies, materials, utilities, venue and equipment, trainer's fee and other related expenditures.
Source: R.A. No. 11230

is a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impact, which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources. Disasters are often described as a result of the combination of: the exposure to a hazard; the conditions of vulnerability that are present; and insufficient capacity or measures to reduce or cope with the potential negative consequences. It impacts may include loss of life, injury, disease and other negative effects on human, physical, mental, and social well-being, together with damage to property, destruction of assets, loss of services, social and economic disruption and environmental degradation.
Source: Sec. 3 of R.A. No. 10121, Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010

refers to workers in the formal and informal sectors who became unemployed, underemployed, or have lost their livelihood as a result of the closure of the establishment, economic crisis, retrenchment, termination, natural disasters/calamities.
Source: TESDA Circular No. 035 s. 2018; DOLE Department Order No. 17 s. 2017

refers to a mode of learning in which trainees and teachers are physically separated from each other. It is a learner-centered, guided independent study making use of well-studied learning and teaching pedagogies to deliver well-designed learning materials through various media. It is sometimes described as flexible learning and distributed learning.

Source: Open Distance Learning Act (R.A. No. 10650) a mode of educational delivery whereby teacher and learner are geographically separated and instruction is delivered through materials and methods using communication technologies, and supported by organizational and administrative structures and arrangements. The delivery medium is typically online but can be by print-based modules or by mobile phone.
Source: CHED Memorandum Order No. 62 s. 2019