DepEd LRMDS Portal: Learning Resources Management and Development System

The Learning Resources Management and Development System (LRMDS) is DepEd’s web-based catalogue and online repository of learning, teaching, and professional-development resources. This guide explains what the LRMDS and its Learning Resource (LR) Portal are, the DepEd order behind them, how the system works, and how teachers can take part.

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What is LRMDS?

The LRMDS provides the mechanisms that support access to quality teaching and learning resources. It has four integrated sub-systems:

1. Assessment and evaluation
2. Development, acquisition, and production
3. Storage and maintenance
4. Publication and delivery

Together, these sub-systems support wider distribution of, and access to, learning, teaching, and professional-development resources at the regional, division, and school levels.

What is the LR Portal?

The Learning Resource Portal (LR Portal) is the website that leads to the LRMDS repository of digital resources. Users can access these resources to complement, enhance, support, and assist the teaching-learning process.

Objectives of this session

This material was prepared as a session for teachers. Its objectives are to help you:

• Get familiar with the different aspects and features of the LRMDS, as a guide to making the most of its resources in teaching
• Understand more deeply the process of identifying, developing, maintaining, using, and improving learning resources in formal basic education
• Describe learning resource management practices that support the delivery of the curriculum

Legal basis: DepEd Order No. 76, s. 2011

The LRMDS rests on DepEd Order No. 76, s. 2011, dated October 4, 2011, titled “National Adoption and Implementation of the Learning Resources Management and Development System (LRMDS).” It was addressed to undersecretaries, assistant secretaries, bureau directors, directors of services, centers, and heads of units, regional directors, schools division and city superintendents, heads of public elementary and secondary schools, and all others concerned. It was signed by Secretary Br. Armin A. Luistro FSC.

Key points of the order

• Purpose. DepEd adopts and implements the LRMDS under the implementing rules and regulations of Republic Act No. 9155, and to support Key Reform Thrust (KRT) 3 of the Basic Education Sector Reform Agenda (BESRA).
• Policy framework. The LRMDS Framework is the policy instrument for running the LRMDS at all levels of DepEd. It is supported by guidelines and process documents for all sub-systems, a quality assurance framework, standards and specifications (for example educational, technical, intellectual property rights, accessibility, and metadata), and training programs.
• What the system includes.
  • Information on the quantity, quality, and location of textbooks, supplementary materials, and other teaching-learning resources
  • Access to learning, teaching, and professional-development resources in digital format
  • Standards, specifications, and guidelines for the four sub-systems
• Clearinghouse and quality assurance. The LRMDS tells users where resources are located (hardcopy and softcopy) and lets them directly access digitized versions stored in the repository. It also helps regions, divisions, and schools select and acquire quality digital and non-digital resources that answer identified local needs.

The LRMDS Task Force

The order created a Task Force to serve as the interim DepEd unit for implementing the LRMDS. Its members were:

• Directors of the Bureau of Elementary Education (BEE), Bureau of Secondary Education (BSE), and Bureau of Alternative Learning System (BALS)
• Directors of the Instructional Materials Council Secretariat (IMCS), Educational Development Project Implementing Task Force (EDPITAF), and Information and Communication Technology Unit-Technical Service (ICTU-TS)
• Technical advisers from the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) through the Support to Enhancement and Mainstreaming of Innovations and Technologies (SEMIT)
• LRMDS representatives from Regions VI, VII, VIII, XI, and CAR

The Task Force was to:

1. Develop a detailed 2011-2012 work plan based on the LRMDS transition plan
2. Determine the organizational, physical, infrastructure, capacity-development, and advocacy requirements for phased national implementation
3. Develop a detailed plan to roll out the four sub-systems in all regions, divisions, and schools
4. Ensure access to the LRMDS repository for all 57 priority divisions
5. Implement the LRMDS in regions and divisions given LRMD Centers under the Support to Philippine Basic Education Reform (SPHERE) grant by December 2011

National rollout and registration

The LRMDS was to be rolled out nationally starting October 2011, with the priority of uploading and publishing all existing DepEd-developed materials and foreign-assisted project (FAP) resources. DepEd officials and field personnel were asked to register at the LRMDS website to access the portal; registration is authenticated within 24 hours.

Vision and objectives

The DepEd LRMDS vision is to achieve adaptive learning resource systems, fully functioning at the region and division levels, that effectively develop and distribute adequate and varied learning resources to teachers and learners in both formal basic education and the Alternative Learning System.

The objectives of the LRMDS are to:

1. Strengthen learning resource development and distribution systems in the Central Office, regions, divisions, and schools
2. Improve the instructional and learning materials system by supporting the assessment, acquisition, adaptation, development, production, and distribution of materials to schools
3. Digitize available student learning materials
4. Improve the provision of quality instructional and learning materials
5. Modify and improve materials for Alternative Delivery Modes and learning systems
6. Improve the development and use of quality assurance systems, including monitoring and evaluation

How the LRMDS works

The LRMDS is made up of four integrated sub-systems that work as one cycle:

1. Assessment and Evaluation
2. Development and Production
3. Storage and Maintenance
4. Publication and Delivery

Scope of the LRMDS

As a clearinghouse, the LRMDS:

• Gives information on where physical resources are located, such as textbooks, training manuals, lesson guides, CDs, charts, and maps
• Lets users access and download digitized resources published and stored in multiple formats in the repository
• Includes the web-based Learning Resource Portal, with a searchable catalogue and online repository of learning, teaching, and professional-development resources

How it is managed

• The LRMDS is managed and maintained at all levels according to DepEd Central Office requirements for distributing and accessing resources.
• It works as an online network through library hubs, division libraries, and media and production development centers, coordinated by LRMDS Division Teams.
• It responds to the learning and teaching resource needs identified by schools and supports divisions, through the regions, in meeting those needs.

Types of LRMDS resources

The LRMDS holds three types of resources, in both digital and non-digital formats.

Resource type	What it is	Designed for
Learning Resources (LRs)	Print (text-based) or non-print materials, devices, tools, equipment, and other media aligned with the K to 12 curriculum or supplementing teaching and learning	Learners
Teaching Resources (TRs)	Any digital or non-digital resource that supports teachers in curriculum development, delivery, and pedagogy, or teacher trainers in professional development programs	Teachers
Professional Development Materials (PDMs)	Any digital or non-digital training and development resource or program with a training purpose; it may contain or reference LRs and TRs	Teachers and trainers

How teachers can take part in the LRMDS

1. Register in the Learning Resource Portal
2. Become a writer or developer of learning resources
3. Illustrate textbooks or storybooks
4. Join a quality assurance team
5. Train others in developing and quality-assuring learning resources
6. Manage learning resources in your school

“You can’t teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.” – Seymour Papert

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