Educational Multimedia Research Centre

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 ‘Development of Courseware e-Content for Undergraduate’. The CEC in its Project Report submitted to MHRD had indicated that e-Content courseware in 19 subjects (Phase-I) shall be produced in collaboration with Media Centres and e- Content courseware in 68 subjects (Phase – II) shall be produced with the assistance of production agencies other than Media Centres. The e-content project is one of the ambitious projects under National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT) of Ministry of Human resource and Development (MHRD), Govt. of India. The centre has recently achieved its goal of completion of 188 programmes in e-content for Zoology, Business Economics and Life-sciences. In total 921 programmes were developed in the above subjects under Phase I & II of the e-content project. The complete courseware includes the topic video, full transcript, text, FAQs, quiz, assignments and references etc., available in easily downloadable format. For a smooth and seamless interface between user and the content CEC developed an e-content template which has been accepted as model template by the MHRD.

The e-content development and associated web based learning does not seek to replace traditional teaching and learning, but is expected to supplement them. UGC-CEC e-content scheme at EMRC aims at developing high quality e-content, as well as expertise for generating such content over the long term. EMRC, Gujarat University is involved in the process of e- content development, wherein, audio, video, graphics, animation and text are used to involve learners and make them a part of the exotic voyage of discovery, wonder and enquiry.

EMMRC has been given a task to produce E-Content in the subject of Zoology.This is a provisional template for future e-Contents. This template is more interactive and its 'Fun with Learn' experience for students. It has Glossary, Summary, Video/Audio, Text, Quiz, Assignments, Reference, FAQs as well as you can download academic script of the programme.