EMRC

 In 1984 University Grants Commission (UGC) New Delhi

has launched Country Wide Class Room(CWCR) and
production facilities at 6 universities in India through
establishing media centres in the name of Audio Visual
Research Centres(AVRC).
 Later these centres have been renamed as EDUCATIONAL
MULTIMEDIA RESEARCH CENTRES.
 EMRC was mainly to use electronic media for the quality
enrichment of higher education.
 UGC began its transmission of Country Wide Class
Room(CWCR) programme from 15th August 1984 through
Doordharshan National Network.
 Initially the coordination with these centres was done
from UGC office with the support of a consultant.
 Subsequently, an inter- University Centre named as
‘Consortium For Educational Communication’ (CEC) was
set up in the year 1993 to coordinate with media centres
(AVRC and EMMRC) and to make CWCR mission most
effective and successful.
 The Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC) was
established as Audio Visual Research Centre (AVRC)by the
UGC – CEC under the Country Wide Class Room (CWCR)
project, with the following objectives:
 Production of educational programmes (especially video
and audio) and related support material and setting up
of appropriate facilities for this.
 Research related to optimizing the effectiveness of the
programmes.
 Providing a forum for the active involvement of the
academic and other scholars in the creation of
appropriate educational programme.
 Studying, prompting and experimenting with new
techniques/technology that will increase the reach and
effectiveness of educational communication.
 The centre is presently funded by the UGC and MHRD for
producing enrichment, educational video lecture and e –
content programmes for broadcasting these through
educational channel on Doordarshan and Internet
streaming commanding a viewership of more than 25
million students.
 It invites faculty from within and outside the university as
subject experts to participate in the activities of the
centre to write scripts on the topics on their subject
specialization followed by the production of film.
 Besides this, the centre also conducts research related to
the creation, dissemination and evaluation of educational
content.
 Main functions
 It is the constant endeavor of EMRC to get the best
teachers from across the country to deliver high quality
lectures to be telecast on Gyan darshan and Vyas, the 24
hour higher educational channel.
 The main objective of the centre is to produce high
quality educational TV programmes, develop e – learning
application such as e – content, multi cast live
interactive lectures using EDUSAT and conduct media
research.
 EMRC to produce educational documentaries on all
subject to complement and supplement the regular
under graduate curriculum.
 To record syllabus oriented video lectures of selected UG
subjects from the approved model curriculum of UGC.
 To develop e – content programmes for web based
education and for the upcoming virtual university and
National Knowledge Network.
 The centre has made about 180 programmes covering
various subject and areas.
 References

 Educational Technology, Evaluation, Research And

Statistics – Dr. Manoj A. V

 https://veenarajendran.wordpress.com
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