About Us

Audio Visual Research Centre, University of Roorkee now Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EM²RC), IIT Roorkee Campus, Roorkee was established in 1983 at the country's premier Engineering University of Roorkee by the University Grants Commission on the recommendations of the Task-Force on Mass Communication and Educational Technology. IIT Roorkee has a most favorable environment for academic pursuit, research and development activities. Its own infrastructure and intellectual capital is greatly augmented by other sister institutes located in the town particularly the Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), National Institute of Hydrology (NIH), Irrigation Research Institute (IRI) and the Bengal Engineer Group & Centre (BEG). Not only this many other institutes of national repute like Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, National Institute for Visually Handicapped, Media Council of Forestry Research & Education, Dehradoon are situated quite close to this place.
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EM²RC Roorkee is one of the 17 media centres. Its major objective is to produce Educational Television programs of high quality for higher education and mass communication which can provide new insights, bring in new findings and take the viewers on vicarious tours of places and laboratories they would never see. The centre has produced 472 educational programs on various subjects namely; Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Life Science, Nutrition, Earth Sciences, Architecture, Ecology, Applied Science, Photography, Literature, Medical Sciences, Civil Engineering, Art, Social Sciences, Tourism, Agriculture, Environment, Science & Technology, Pollution, Health, History & Culture, Home Science, Forestry, History, Human Rights, Fine Arts, Hydrology, Career Counseling, Oceanography, Women Empowerment, Engineering, Yoga, Geology, Geography etc. of these many programs have been dubbed into Hindi. The programs produced by the centre are telecast under Countrywide Classroom program on DD-1, GD-4 and 24 hours non-stop transmission on a separate Vyas channel of higher education. Keeping in view the development in the technology, a major initiative has been taken by the UGC to develop e-Content and make it available to teachers and students for face to face and self-paced learning. With the result, all 17 media centres of the country are renamed as Educational Multimedia Research Centre, so the AVRC Roorkee has also been renamed as Educational Multimedia Research Centre. Now our centre has been provided with basic platform and e-technology for e-content development. This will help and enable teachers to use this facility to develop educational programs in their subject. Besides this; the UGC CWCR program is entered into interactive virtual classroom teaching after launching the educational satellite (EDUSAT).
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The centre provides a forum for the active involvement of academics and other scholars in creation of appropriate educational programs. To prepare high quality technical programs in the area of engineering and related fields by using best expertise of the country as this centre is privileged to be situated in India’s premier technical institution.