EMMRC (EDUCATIONAL MULTIMEDIA RESOURCE CENTRE)

Introduction• UGC set up Media Centres in various universities and institutions in the

country with the objectives to produce in-house quality educational programmes for electronic media. The centres are engaged in production of Video & Multimedia based programmes. CEC and the Media centres have more than 500 trained manpower & state of the art equipment. CEC has perhaps the largest repository of Educational Video programmes being produced by its Media Centres, numbering more than 20000. at present about 2000 video based programmes and almost same under of e-Contents based on UGC model curriculum and being produced annually by the Media Centres. These Programmes are telecast on VYAS Higher Education Channel. CEC in its media center circuit is having 22 centres across the country.

Objectives• Production of Educational Television Programs.• Production of syllabus based video lectures with multimedia inputs.• Development of E-content programs with multimedia inputs.• Development of Learning Object Repository• Virtual classroom operations through EDUSAT Network.• Conduct Research to improve the quality of the program.• Organize training program for teachers in e- content development.

Expansion The center is presently funded by UGC and MHRD for producing enrichment, educational video lectures and content programmes for broadcasting these through educational video lectures and e-content programmes for broadcasting these through educational channel on Doordarshan and Internet streaming commanding a viewership of more than 25 million students. The centres is equipped with a large state of the art studio with Chroma facility, latest technology broadcasting equipment with high powered multimedia workstations to produce educational video contents, LORs and e content programmes. Besides this, the center also conducts research related to the creation, dissemination and evaluation of educational contents.

Facilities by EMMRC• Studio: the center has a high end digital TV system for the production

of programmes. A fully equipped TV Studio for single and multi-cambers production, audio- studio, high end outdoor production.

• EDUSAT: it is a satellite facility devoted to meet the demands of educational sector. It was launched on Sept, 2004 by ISRO to meet ever increasing demand for an interactive satellite based distance education system for country. The students reap the benefits without being present physically in the classroom . 68 satellite interactive terminals and receive only terminals are installed across the country for the above mentioned project.

Production Activities.

• UGC Lecture Series: The center has attained the credible and enviable status of one of the best such centres in the field of producing quality video and e-content programmes. It includes :

• Video Lecture Programmes: Video lectures can be recorded in any subject following the UGC course curriculum. These educational documentation and curriculum- based programmes are then broadcast on TV channels such as DD1 ,DD B harti, DD gyan darshan, UGC’s 24-hour Higher education channel and streamed through Internet

• Documentary Films: constitute a broad category of non- fictional motion pictures intended to document some aspects in reality, primarily for the purpose of instruction or maintaining a historical record. The main objective of the documentary is to stimulate student interest in diverse scientific concepts, processes and hitherto unknown facts of Indian Art and Culture.

• NMEICT: After launching National Mission on Education through ICT on 2nd February 2009 at Tirupati, the MHRD invited proposals from leading institutions of the country regarding development of e-content. The MHRD vide its communication dated 31st March 2009 has communicated approved on the project proposal submitted by CEC on the “Development of Courseware e-content for Undergraduates”. The CEC in its Project Report submitted to MHRD had indicated that e-content courseware in 19 subjects shall be produced in collaboration with Media Centres and e-Content courseware in 68 subjects shall be produced with the assistance of production agencies other than Media Centres.