E-Education:
www.cec-channel.edu.in, www.cec-lor.edu.in, www.cec-econtent.edu.in,
One of the innovations in higher education carried out by the UGC in early eighties was using powerful medium of films for knowledge communication. As early as in 1984 UGC launched countrywide classroom (CWCR) and Production facilities at 6 universities. Initially the coordination with these centers was done from UGC office with the support of a consultant. Subsequently an inter-university Centre named as 'Consortium for Educational Communication' was set up in the year 1993 with the following objectives:
Objectives :
- Close coordination, facilitation, overall guidance and direction to the activities of the Media Centres set up by the UGC in various universities.
- Dissemination of educational programmes, through both the broadcast and non-broadcast modes.
- 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 academic and other scholars in the creation of appropriate educational programme.
- Studying, promoting and experimenting with new techniques/technology that will increase the reach and/or effectiveness of educational communication.
As a response to these objectives the CEC coordinates the development
of Centres, ensuring the quality of software, coordination of telecasting
of the selected films, inspiring and encouraging innovations. During the
two decades of CWCR and a decade of CEC considerable progress has been
made.
The Development :
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The system of educational communication has grown to 17 Educational Media Research Centres and Audio Visual Research Centre. Average number of education films produced has increase to 500 films from 25 in the beginning. The number of hours of telecast of education films on national channel has increased from 2 hours to 4 hours daily. Now CEC runs a 24hr higher education satellite channel known as Vyas channel on Gyan Darshan Bouquet. The focus of education films are the following three types:
- Enrichment oriented films
- Subject related series of films
- Under graduate syllabus based lectures by eminent teachers.
On the side of development of production equipment CEC coordinates acquisition of latest equipment by the media centers and maintenance of these equipments.
The Countrywide Classroom completed 2 decades and Consortium of Educational Communication has completed a decade of service.
Quality :
Several measures are adopted for quality assurance, namely preview, feedback, technical quality check at the time of telecasting and post telecast feedback and viewers survey. It also encourages quality improvement through competition and awards. Some of the important awardees include programmes from EMRC, Calcutta, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Pune, Jodhpur and AVRC Indore, Imphal, Sagar, Calicut, Mysore, Srinagar, Roorkee and Hyderabad and some outside producers, namely Mr. Amar Kanwar, Delhi, NID, Ahmedabad, MIC Manipal, IMCPL, Faridabad, National Open School, New Delhi, C-DIT, Thiruananthpuram, PSBT, New Delhi, etc.
It is also awards the person for his/her life time contribution. The awardees include Fr. Gaston Roberge, Prof. Yash Pal, Prof. E.V. Chitnis, Prof. Vijaya Mullay Mr. Kiran S. Karnik, Mr. Shyam Benegal and Prof. J. Narlikar
Contact :
CONSORTIUM FOR EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATION
(An Inter University Centre of University Grants Commission on Electronic
Media) NSC Campus, Aruna
Asaf Ali Marg,
New Delhi – 110 067.
PhoneNo.011-2897418,26897419
Email:cecugc@cec-ugc.org
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