Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia CEMCA Activities 2012-2013
Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia
CEMCA Activities
2012-2013
Vision, Mission, Strategies
Vision: To be the foremost agency in Commonwealth Asia that promotes media-enabled learning for development
Mission: To assist governments and institutions to expand the scale, efficiency and quality of learning by using multiple media in open, distance and technology-enhanced learning.
Strategies: Partnerships, Capacity, Materials, Models, Policies
Core Sectors, Initiatives Education
– Open Schooling– Teacher Education– Higher Education
Livelihoods and health– Technical and Vocational Skill Development– Community Media/Healthy Communities
Cross-cutting Themes– E-Learning– Gender
Open Schooling
Activity on Virtual Open Schooling with National Institute of Open Schooling– Feasibility study– Sensitization workshop – Platform development/integration
(Wiki+LMS)– Content development– Capacity building– Strengthening NCOS
Industry linked Course Development
Teacher Education
Promoting teacher ICT integration in blended learning (Discussion with DEP-SSA, IGNOU)– Developing a Community of Practice of
Teacher Educators– ICT in Education Models best practice
sharing– Capacity building of Teacher Educators
Higher Education
Institutional Capacity building for OER-based eLearning in partnership with Wawasan Open University, Malaysia – Two workshops to develop structured
learning resources leading to online course
ICT Leadership in Higher Education– Advocacy workshop to be held annually;
2013 at Dr. BRAOU and celebrate its 30 years
OER quality review– Develop quality indicators for OER (at
MANUU)
Technical and Vocational Skill Development
Developing a Programme on Community Radio Technology– Content to be released in OER– Work in progress
Developing ODL strategy to implement NVEQF
Community Media/Healthy Communities
Community Women Broadcaster Training Developing Sustainable Model for CR
Stations in India and Bangladesh Quality Framework and Toolkit for CR
Stations Strengthening Community Content
Exchange platform and support development of Web Radio– Web Radio Manual under development
E-Learning
Survey of eLearning in Asia Virtual Open Schooling OER-based eLearning OER Quality indicators Community of Practice for Teacher
Educators ICT integrated blended learning Web Radio
Gender Increased participation of women in
activities Community Women Broadcaster Training Gender focussed Community Radio
Technology Programme Supporting Women students to pursue
IGNOU’s Post-Graduate Diploma in E-Learning (PGDEL)
Awards for best women students pursuing ICT and media related courses at NIOS, IGNOU, OUM, and Krishna University
Communications EduComm Asia (re-launch) Publications CEMCA EdTech Notes: MOOC, Podcasting,
and Learning Analytics CEMCA Website (re-launch)
– Drupal CMS– Use and integration of Social Media– Increased linkages with COL website– Organized information sharing– Information push through eNewsletter
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