TESDA keeps up with the ICT age and introduces e-TESDA, a web portal that carries TESDA’s training, in full online and blended learning modes, and other services electronically.

Cyberstudents click through their lessons guided by virtual facilitators. The online infrastructure gives immediate feedback on tests after every lesson. Interaction with fellow students is still present via emails, forum, and chats.

Initially, e-services to be offered are career profiling, registration of training programs, job matching and referral, and e-information that leads to databases of certified trainers/assessors, sea-based and land-based registry of workers, employment data of graduates, registered programs, and assessment centers.

The system is most convenient for those currently employed but would like to take tech-voc courses to further enrich their knowledge and skills. “This is a notable improvement in instruction delivery. Students can study at their own time and pace. e-TESDA also hastens the results of personality, aptitude, and occupational tests that aid career guidance services while the online registration streamlines a number of processes,” explains Syjuco.