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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.
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Name
of the Centre
:EMRC, Roorkee
Name of the Director : Dr. Sunil Mehru
Date of Inception : 1983
Address
: EMRC, IIT Campus,
Roorkee(Uttrakhand)
247667
Telephone No. :
01332-285229, 284329, 284357
Fax No. :01332-273560,
01332-285229
e-mail Address :avrc@iitr.ernet.in
Website Address : www.emmrcroorkee.org.in
Number of Post sanctioned :25
Name of the Host University :IIT Roorkee, Roorkee
Vice Chancellor :Prof. Pradeep
Tel. No. of Host University :01332-285500
Website and e-mail :www.iitr.ernet.in
director@iitr.ernet.in
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