Since, 1983 the university has been broadcasting its syllabus oriented educational lessons of the courses offered over All India Radio in English, Telugu, Hindi and Urdu. The EMR&RC a unit of the university develops educational programmes in analogue and digital formats viz. Audio and Video tapes/cassettes VCDs, DVDs in phased manner to provide individual and group viewing facilities at the study centres to enrich the quality of learning. The other major initiative of the centre was to utilize the All India Radio and Television (Doordarshan) facilities effectively to reach the large audiences. This was considered as a continuous strategy of the University to make use of Radio and TV media effectively to reach out the learners.
The advent of World Wide Web and internet, social media, cloud computing etc has changed the face/pace of teaching and learning concept of ODL by use of computers, smart phones, and other devises. It was distinctive feature among the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) Education Institutions of the country. Electronic Media Resources & Research Centre is going to play a major role in developing and delivering digital content to the distance learners by using different delivery platforms that are available to the students.
In the distance education, teaching, learning modes took lot of changes in delivery of digital content to the end users. The university adopt the new technology to produce quality digital content to reach the students. EMR&RC facilitates for digital content production, delivery to reach out the more number of learners through digital mode delivery of content.
BROADCAST OF AUDIO LESSONS AND TELECAST OF VIDEO LESSONS:
EMR&RC had produced number of Tele-lessons in different subjects and broadcast through Doordarshan and T-SAT. AVPRC also conducted radio phone in programme through AIR and live programmes through DD. EMR&RC is planning to use the digital platforms to reach the distance learners by widening the use of technology to deliver the content such as – starting its web radio for audio lessons broadcast, Live Video lessons on YouTube channel, course wise Audio, Video lessons production and delivery. It facilitates the learner to have face to face live interaction with the teacher via electronic gadgets, to get answers for their queries.
The electronic media, educational TV lessons, Radio lessons and use of IT in the ODL system is an effective mode of teaching and learning. This is the first university to use live streaming of video lesson to distance learners; it is noted as unique facility in the national ODL system. Information Technology advantage and use of Internet of Things (IoT), in the distance teaching and learning is gaining more popularity to reach ODL students in very less time.
At present telecasting of video lessons through T-SAT Vidya and Nipuna channels and audio lessons broadcasting over All India Radio (A.I.R.) are available as per time slots. T-SAT video lessons are being telecasted on Nipuna from 2:00pm to 3:00pm on Vidya from 1:00pm to 2:00pm and from 8:30pm to 9:30pm. All India Radio broadcasts the lessons from 6:25pm to 6:40pm.
The learning process through technology is being adopted by the students of distance education. The university facilitates the students to access digitized content which was available on university YouTube channel and university web portal. With the changing times and advancement of technology learning mode is also changed. Now the learning process through technology is being adopted by the students of distance education. The entire content was digitized and uploaded in the university website so that the students can access it through YouTube whenever they had time. The EMR&RC is using different electronic technologies in digitizing the content to the unreached.
In the changed scenario of technology mediated teaching and learning process in the advent of World Wide Web and internet, which has revolutionised the concept of ODL teaching and learning to make use of computers, conferencing, smart phones, internet social media, cloud computing etc. Now we are in the age of virtual class room and social networking.
In the areas of technological developments in the social technologies field, social software and social networking YouTube, Face book and Twitter are being used by the people to communicate and collaborate with the network, socialise and professionalise in the teaching and learning process. The emerging of cloud computing technology, data centres and cloud platform these helped the ODL institutions to shift the teaching and learning mode from traditional to online learning in the present technological context.