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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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