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Tuesday, 9 June 2015

CONSORTIUM FOR EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATION



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. V
Mathematics,
Roll No : 33


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