ABOUT LRMDS
The Learning Resources Management Development System (LRMDS) is designed by the Department of Education to provide access to quality learning, teaching, and professional development materials. The resources included in the LRMDS catalogue are not just downloadable materials which can be used online for reference, but these have been evaluated and continuously developed to ensure relevance in our curriculum.
Specifically, LRMDS is designed to achieve the following objectives:
1. Strengthened learning resource development and distribution systems at Regional and Division levels.
2. Improvement of instructional and learning materials system through support for the assessment, acquisition, adaptation, development, production and distribution of teaching/learning materials to schools.
3. Digitized available student learning materials (including from PASMEP, PROBE, PRODED, BEAM, TEEP, SEDIP, etc), particularly for reading in the early grades and TLE programs, English, Science and Mathematics in other grades, ADM and ALS.
4. Enhanced provisions of quality instructional and learning materials, particularly in reading in early grades and TLE, English, Science and Mathematics in other grades.nd ALS.
5. Modified and enhanced instructional and learning materials for implementing Alternative Delivery Modes and Learning Systems.nd ALS.
6. Improved development and utilisation of Quality Assurance (including Monitoring and Evaluation) systems for provision and utilisation of learning resources.
7. Development of ICT-enabled solutions in the three regions, integrated with national systems, to support the strengthening of the learning resource support systems.

VISION
The provision of adaptive learning resource systems, fully functioning at the region and division levels, effectively developing and distributing adequate and varied learning resources to teachers and learners from both the formal Basic Education and Alternative Learning systems.
HISTORY
The Framework for LRMDS was developed and validated in Regions VI, VII and VIII, Divisions of Negros Occidental, Bohol/Tagbilaran and Northern Samar, through the AusAID-funded project STRIVE (Strengthening the Implementation of Basic Education in Selected Provinces of the Visayas), in coordination with the EDPITAF (Educational Development Project Implementing Task Force), and in consultation with the Bureau for Elementary Education (BEE), Bureau of Secondary Education (BSE), Bureau of Alternative Learning Systems (BALS) and the National Learning Strategies-Technical Working Group (NLS-TWG)