CONSORTIUM FOR EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATION
The consortium for educational communication
popularly known as CEC is one of the Inter University Centres set up by the
University Grants Commission of India. It has been established with the goal of
addressing the needs of Higher Education through the one of powerful medium and
Television along with the appropriate use of emerging information communication
technology. Subsequently CEC emerged in 1993 as a nodal agency to coordinate,
guide and facilitate such educational production at the national level. Today
22 media centres are working towards achieving this goal under the umbrella of
CEC. Realizing the potential and power of television to act as means of
educational knowledge dissemination, UGC started the countrywide classroom
programs in the year 1984. For production of such programs media centres were
setup at 6 universities.
CEC’s learning management system centre to educational requirements of
the country and world over. The CEC provides various worldwide e courses
through its virtual learning system for the masses across the country and can
be used by Universities, Colleges and Students as a supplement material to the
conventional teaching system. This will certainly help to increase the GER
percentage of the country.
The objectives of CEC is close coordination, facilitation, overall
guidance and direction towards the activities of the Media centres set up by
the UGC in various universities throughout the country. Dissemination of
educational programs through broadcast as well as non broadcast modes. Production
of educational Programs ( Audio/ Visual and Web based ) and related support
material further setting up of appropriate facilities for such production. Research
activities related to optimizing the effectiveness of such programs. Providing
a forum for the active involvement of academic and other scholars in the
creation of appropriate educational programs. Studying, promoting and
experimenting with new technology that will increase the reach and/or
effectiveness of educational communication.
EDUSAT is
the satellite exclusively devoted to meet the demands of educational sector. It
was launched on September 2004, 24 by Indian Space Research Organization ( ISRO
) to meet ever increasing demand for an interactive satellite based distance
education system for the country. It has revolutionized classroom teaching
through IP based technology. EDUSAT has five KU band transponder providing
national beam and six extended C-band transponders providing national coverage
beams.
Consortium for educational commission (CEC) is one amongst the five
primary users of this educational satellite. ISRO has adjudged the CEC as “The
Best EDUSAT National Beam User“ in July 2008. At present, there are over
hundred Satellite Interactive Terminals (SITS) and Receive Only Terminals (ROT’s)
and CEC EDUSAT network. Installed at various colleges, Academic staff colleges
and universities across the country many more are being added with the purpose
of providing quality higher education to the remote areas through satellite
network. CEC EDUSAT network is empowering students through cutting edge
technology and the needs of students across the country.
CEC
EDUSAT network has done exceptionally well in the past and has won many laurels
since it began live transmission on 5th September 2005. In the live
transmission, CEC acts as the teaching end. Subject experts deliver lectures
live. These lectures are received by various SIT’s and ROT’s. They are known as
class room end. The teaching end can be shifted from one SIT to another. Thus
the student can benefit from experts located in various educational institutions
across the country. The expert can address the queries of the students in the
live mode. The students can interact and ask questions using one following
three methods (1) Audio/ Video Conferencing (2) Text Mode (3) Through
Telephones.
Educational Multi Media Research
Centre
EMMRC
stands for educational multimedia research centre. The UGC setup media
centres in various universities and institutions in the country with the
objectives to produce in-house quality educational programs for electronic
media. The centres are engaged in production of video and multimedia based
programs. CEC and the media centres have more than 500 trained manpower and
state of the art equipment. CEC has perhaps the largest repository of
educational video programs being produced by its media centres numbering more
than 20000. At present about 2000 video based on UGC model curriculam are being
produced annually by the media centres. These programs are telecast an VYAS
Higher Education Channel. CEC in its media center circuit is having 22 centres
across the country.
In India countrywide classroom (CWCR) programmes were first broadcast on
15th August 1984 for the production and educational video
programmes. UGC India had established seven educational media research centres
(EMMRCs) and ten Audio visual research centers (AVRCs) all over the country.
This was done to ensure the constant content creation in the video format for
the CWCR telecasts. At present all these centers are renamed as educational
Multimedia research Centers (EMMRC s) to reflect their increased role in the
educational content production in the age of rapid multimedia developments.
The educational Multimedia Research Centre at the university of Calicut
is the only one kind of its to be set in kerala by UGC. Operational since 1998,
the centre is dedicated to harness emerging information and communication
technologies for furthering the cause of higher education equipped with large
studio, stage of the art video recording and editing equipments and multimedia
work stabons, the centre conducts hardware and software research and produce a
variety of products educational video documentaries e-content and video lectures
on under graduate subjects of study.
With the objective of producing high quality audiovisual programmes and
developing multimedia content, conducting research and training of necessary
manpower and promotion of related culture in the university system. The UGC
established the educational multimedia research centre (EMMRC) at Calicut
university in the year 1998. Since its inception, the EMMRC centre is engaged
in production and development of videos and rich media content for the higher
education sector. The productions of EMMRC, Calicut university has received
wide acclaim and won numerous national and state awards.
Sunitha.
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