online learning experience, consisted of learning with both the UK Open University (OU) and the eAcademy, an eLearning platform run by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The UKOU programme was at MA level and focused on theories, research and practices in online and distance education. It had several modules whose sizes varied between 300 and 600 hours: 30 and 60 credits respectively in the British credit system. As for the e-Academy programme, it focused more on the development of hands-on skills in planning, implementing, managing and tutoring eLearning courses. It consisted of six modules of roughly 30 to 40 hours of workload. This programme was implemented by the University of The Philippines Open University (UPOU).