Emmrc

1. Educational MultiMedia Research Centre

2. Introduction
Educational Multimedia Research Centre, St.
Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata was
established in 1986 as Audio Visual Research Centre
to make educational television programmes for the
Countrywide Classroom project of the University
Grants Commission. Over a period of time it grew in
strength and was upgraded to Educational Media
Research Centre. Then in the early part of the
second millennium it was further modified and
named as Educational Multimedia Research Centre.

3. From then on EMRC became EMMRC and besides
making television programmes as was the mandate
of UGC it also started making e-content. This
mandate was further modified and EMMRCs are
expected to make not just enrichment programmes
but programmes that are syllabus–based. Then these
programmes are transformed into e-content. At
present this is the main function of EMMRC.

4. EMMRC
 The Educational Multimedia Research Centre
(EMMRC) at the University of Calicut is the only
one of its kind to be set up in Kerala by the
University Grants Commission (UGC).
 Operational since 1998, the Centre is dedicated
to harness the information and communication
technologies for furthering the cause of higher
education.
 Equipped with a multicam studio, state-of-the-art
production equipment and multimedia
workstations.

5. The Centre conducts hardware and software research
and produces a variety of products: educational video
documentaries, e-content and video lectures on
undergraduate subjects of study.
• The objective of the media centre is to produce high-
quality audio visual programmes and developing
multimedia content.
• In addition to this, the center also engages in
conducting research on media techonologies and
education-related topic, training of necessary human
resources and promotion of visual media cultures in
the university system.
• The productions of EMMRC, Calicut University has
received wide acclaim and won numerous national
and state awards.