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About EMRC

EMRC, Gujarat University, is one of the forerunners of the 21 EMRCs set up by University Grants Commission (UGC/MHRD) across the country under the umbrella of Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC).

EMRC, Ahmedabad was established on 9 November, 1984. Since then, it has been actively involved in production of TV programmes and e-contents.

In 2000, MHRD-NMEICT project was allotted to EMRC, Ahmedabad to prepare TV videos (Vyas TV) and e-contents.

The Centre is involved in the production of educational content for students of Higher Education.

It develops and designs excellent learning materials for students and helps them benefit through the vast educational resources available within and outside the state in the form of e-content, ETV programmes, MOOCs, documentaries, multimedia and learning objects.

The Centre is also engaged in research to assess the popularity and utility of these educational programmes besides analyzing the potential and utility of World Wide Web, television and other communication technologies for teaching and learning.

The Centre also organizes awareness programme in different colleges of Gujarat to make students and teachers aware about the development and utilization of e-resources and use of ICT in education.

Till date the centre has produced around 1500 ETV programmes, over 750 NMEICT (e-content) modules and 200 Learning Objects Repository (LORs) and 30 MOOCs in the subjects of Architecture, Chemistry, Zoology, Life Sciences, Business Economics etc. The Centre has completed both phases of e-Content development in Zoology (Phase I), Life Science and Business Economics (Phase II) based on three-year under graduate syllabus of respective subjects.