The Educational Multimedia Resource Centre (EMMRC) was established by the University Grants Commission to produce educational video and multimedia content. It has a large studio facility and produces over 2,000 video lectures and e-learning materials annually based on UGC curriculum. This content is broadcast on educational television channels and streamed online, reaching over 25 million students. The EMMRC conducts research and provides training to improve the quality of its educational programming and resources.

1. EMMRC
(EDUCATIONAL MULTIMEDIA
RESOURCE CENTRE)

2. Introduction
• UGC set up Media Centres in various universities and institutions in the country
with the objectives to produce in-house quality educational programmes for
electronic media. The centres are engaged in production of Video & Multimedia
based programmes. CEC and the Media centres have more than 500 trained
manpower & state of the art equipment. CEC has perhaps the largest repository of
Educational Video programmes being produced by its Media Centres, numbering
more than 20000. at present about 2000 video based programmes and almost same
under of e-Contents based on UGC model curriculum and being produced annually
by the Media Centres. These Programmes are telecast on VYAS Higher Education
Channel. CEC in its media center circuit is having 22 centres across the country.

3. Objectives
• Production of Educational Television Programs.
• Production of syllabus based video lectures with multimedia inputs.
• Development of E-content programs with multimedia inputs.
• Development of Learning Object Repository
• Virtual classroom operations through EDUSAT Network.
• Conduct Research to improve the quality of the program.
• Organize training program for teachers in e- content development.

4. Expansion
The center is presently funded by UGC and MHRD for producing enrichment,
educational video lectures and content programmes for broadcasting these through
educational video lectures and e-content programmes for broadcasting these through
educational channel on Doordarshan and Internet streaming commanding a
viewership of more than 25 million students. The centres is equipped with a large state
of the art studio with Chroma facility, latest technology broadcasting equipment with
high powered multimedia workstations to produce educational video contents, LORs
and e content programmes. Besides this, the center also conducts research related to
the creation, dissemination and evaluation of educational contents.

5. Facilities by EMMRC
• Studio: the center has a high end digital TV system for the production of
programmes. A fully equipped TV Studio for single and multi-cambers
production, audio- studio, high end outdoor production.
• EDUSAT: it is a satellite facility devoted to meet the demands of
educational sector. It was launched on Sept, 2004 by ISRO to meet ever
increasing demand for an interactive satellite based distance education system
for country. The students reap the benefits without being present physically
in the classroom . 68 satellite interactive terminals and receive only terminals
are installed across the country for the above mentioned project.

6. Production Activities.
• UGC Lecture Series: The center has attained the credible and enviable
status of one of the best such centres in the field of producing quality video
and e-content programmes. It includes :
• Video Lecture Programmes: Video lectures can be recorded in any subject
following the UGC course curriculum. These educational documentation
and curriculum- based programmes are then broadcast on TV channels such
as DD1 ,DD B harti, DD gyan darshan, UGC’s 24-hour Higher education
channel and streamed through Internet

7. • Documentary Films: constitute a broad category of non- fictional motion
pictures intended to document some aspects in reality, primarily for the
purpose of instruction or maintaining a historical record. The main
objective of the documentary is to stimulate student interest in diverse
scientific concepts, processes and hitherto unknown facts of Indian Art and
Culture.

8. • NMEICT: After launching National Mission on Education through ICT on 2nd
February 2009 at Tirupati, the MHRD invited proposals from leading institutions
of the country regarding development of e-content. The MHRD vide its
communication dated 31st March 2009 has communicated approved on the project
proposal submitted by CEC on the “Development of Courseware e-content for
Undergraduates”. The CEC in its Project Report submitted to MHRD had
indicated that e-content courseware in 19 subjects shall be produced in
collaboration with Media Centres and e-Content courseware in 68 subjects shall be
produced with the assistance of production agencies other than Media Centres.