COUNTRY WIDE CLASSROOM PROGRAMMES  
 

                                                   

THE GENESIS
With the intent of overcoming some of these obstacles to knowledge and learning, the University Grants Commission initiated a unique Educational Television Experiment. Operationalisation of the Indian National Satellite (INSAT) series and the National TV Network in 1982, provided students with a ringside seat to view the latest developments in any field. UGC began its transmission of Countrywide Classroom (CWCR) from 15^th August, 1984. Telecast twice a day for the past twelve years through Doordarshan's National Network, CWCR has created a niche audience of youth and adults in cities, small towns and remote areas devoid of adequate educational facilities

 CWCR & THE MEDIA CENTRES


       


Countrywide Classroom (CWCR) programme production is guided by CEC as a nodal body of University Grants Commission (UGC). These educational programmes are produced by 17 media centres under the CEC and are telecast on Doordarshan’s National Channel (DD I) everyday. These programmes could be used either to supplement curriculum or as enrichment material. They seek to provide knowledge that broadens horizons by giving information on various subjects. These are available in topics as mentioned below. The hyperlink lead to details/ list of programmes in a particular subject.

To acquire CWCR programmes packages write to :

The Director, Consortium for Educational Communication, NSC Campus, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067 or mail to  cecugc@cec-ugc.org.

The produce quality programmes indigenously and on sustained basis for CWCR, the UGC set up Media Centers in premier universities of India. The academicians of the various departments of universities and scientists working in laboratories were invited to share their knowledge with the nation on the Indian television network. From four media Centers in 1984, the number has grown to Seventeen.

These centers till 2004, were known as Educational Media Research Centers (EMRCs) and Audio Visual Research Centers (AVRCs).These are located in various parts of the country.Keeping in view the new challenges for packaging the knowledge in multimedia format these centers have since been renamed as Educational Multimedia Research Centers (EMMRC) in 2004 by the UGC.
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