MAJOR MILESTONESOF CEMCA (1994-2014)

Mr. K. Narayanan joined as �rst employee

Establishmentof CEMCA

First workshop onproductionof audio-video programme held at Pune

19951995 19981998 20002000

CEMCA startedpublishing a newsletter entitled EduComAsia

Educational video database project initiated

Achievements Thought leadership in educational technology innovations and practices Over 110 Community Radio stations in India supported Over 6500 individuals received capacity building opportunities Learning materials released as Open Educational Resources (OER) in timely

appropriate and emerging areas Institutional partnership fostered in Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Malaysia,

Pakistan, and Sri Lanka

Developed Models and Frameworks for quality assurance of educational multimedia, OER, Community Radio station, and promoted innovative use of low-cost technologies (eg. MedLib, EasyNow, Web Radio, Virtual Open Schooling (VOS))

Provided policy support to Government ministries and public institutions in Commonwealth Asia

Collaborated with UNESCO, UNICEF, FAO, Ford Foundation, British Council, IDRC, etc.

Host countryagreement signed between COL and Govt. of India forrecognizing CEMCA

Govt. of India noti�ed CEMCA as an international agency with privileges and immunities applicable to UN agencies

200120012001

20072007

20022002

International Symposium on Collaboration on ODL organized at IGNOU

Teleconferencing toolkit released

Quality assurance of educational multimedia started

Series ofinterviews on“Civil Paths to

Peace” withProf. Amartya Sen

released

Multimedia resource for special needs

education released in Hindi and Bangla

CEMCA started promoting Open Educational

Resources

ICT Leadershipin Higher Education workshop organized at Hyderabad

Quality assurance of Open Educational Resources initiated

National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) launched Virtual Open Schooling with the support of CEMCA

IDRC supported research project on OER started

1st RegionalConsultation on Community Radio awareness organized at Lucknow 1st exploratory

workshop on Science for Women organized

at New Delhi

Workshop on Multimedia Courseware for Distance Education organized at Open University of Sri Lanka

CEMCA organized workshop on “Internet and Education” at IGNOU

July 1,

1994

1994 19991999

Regional workshop on Instructional Design organisedat Open University of Sri Lanka

Workshop on e-Learning

organized at Calicut

CEMCA started serving as South Asia node for Global

Distance Education Network (GDENET)

Workshop on Multimedia Coursewarefor Distance

Education organized at Bangladesh Open University

1st ISBN publication of CEMCA entitled Educational Multimedia released

ICT and media training programme for women journalist in South Asia

held at IIMC under ”Education Makes News”

project of UNESCO

200320032008200820092009

20102010

20112011

20132013

20052005

World Radio Day 2014 celebrated and Community Radio Video Challenge organized 20

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CEMCA organizedthe 1st NationalCR Sammelan on behalf of Ministry ofInformation and Broadcasting, Govt. of India

CEMCA Community RadioFacilitation Centre received support from Ford Foundation

Community Radio Continuous Improvement Toolkit (CR-CIT)version 1 released