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The UST CLOUD Campus remains the focal program of the UST EdTech Center catering to the eLearning activities of the university. The partnership of the Educational Technology Center and the respective colleges through its UST CLOUD Campus addresses the need to increase availability of knowledge resources and revolutionize teaching-learning opportunities among faculty members and students in the digital world.

Having a centralized and dedicated EdTech Center allowed the university to administer faculty and student support across a massive-wide elearning implementation. The UST CLOUD Campus has a cloud-based infrastructure powered by Blackboard, a world-class learning management system, enhanced by Google for Education and enriched Adobe Creative eLearning Solutions. it is able to provide an integrated learning environment that provides rich opportunities for faculty members across subject areas of specialization to reap the benefits of elearning while improving their specific skills in:

• Designing meaningful eLearning classroom experiences
• Developing customised interactive multimedia content
• Enhancing their productivity and participating in other non-curricular activities related to technology
• Providing faculty members with a secure and reliable alternative learning environment to augment existing face-to-face classes in the form of web-presence, web-enhanced or fully-online course sites.
• Improving lesson delivery by providing anytime/anywhere online learning opportunities through teacher-centered, student-centered and team-centered approaches;
• Mirroring and enhancing the existing classroom delivery lesson cycle (motivation, content delivery, assessment, discussion, and reinforcement of lessons) through a variety of appropriate elearning practices;
• Training and mentoring faculty members continually in their elearning practices and needs;
• Enriching learning experiences of students through well-designed web-based activities; and
• Facilitating community-based projects such as surveys or elections which are non-curricular in nature through the creation of community sites.

The Educational Technology Center is an integral part of the University of Santo Tomas in strengthening the academic programs of the University by promoting the appropriate integration of educational media for the enhancement of instruction, research, and community service to the entire Thomasian academic community.

The Educational Technology Center, under the supervision of the Assistant to the Rector for Information and Communications Technology, contributes to the achievement of academic excellence by enhancing the academic and religious instruction of the university in the appropriate design, development and effective integration of educational media and emerging learning technologies for globally recognized Catholic education.