MANILA, Feb. 4 -- In response to challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Affairs Staff of the Philippine Commission on Higher Education (CHED) teamed up with the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines for the “eLearning Essentials: Responding and Reimagining Education in the Philippines” project, the country’s first international collaboration on flexible learning. From October to November 2020, 13 CHED officers and 177 State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) representatives participated in a series of nationwide flexible learning trainings as part of the first phase of the jointly-funded project. The Texas International Education Consortium, a U.S.-based non-profit organization that advances global educational partnerships, collaborations, and exchanges for 34 universities across Texas, facilitated the virtual conference.