Presentation at the 12th Advisory Council Meeting on 17 December 2012 at New Delhi

1. Commonwealth Educational
Media Centre for Asia
CEMCA Activities
2012-2013

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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)

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. Thank You