About Us
The Centre for Educational Technology and Media (CETMe) plays a pivotal role in the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL) in providing guidelines for designing self-instructional materials, designing and developing educational media and ensuring quality standards of the OUSL course materials. It is the service provider for all the six Faculties to develop their course materials including online courses.
The audio-visual unit (AV Unit) that was established at the inception of the OUSL in 1980 was transformed into the Educational Technology Division (ET Division) in 1988 under the OUSL Ordinance 1, 1987. The studio of the Media House was enhanced, digitized, and transformed into a high-definition television studio under the capacity enhancement (OUSL-CE) Project of the Distance Education Modernization Project (DEMP – 2003 – 2009). Major structural changes occurred in 2011 to accommodate new developments, restructuring the ET Division as the “Centre for Educational Technology and Media” (CETMe) with two separate units: the Academic and Research Unit and the Production Unit.
CETMe has received several international awards for educational video productions.
Vision
“To be a prime centre in the application of Educational Technology through the exploitation of media with the aim of motivating and supporting learners to overcome barriers and enhance learning at a distance”.
Mission
“To achieve excellence in designing and developing instructional materials using multimedia and assuring quality in the university system”.
Organizational/Operational Structure
The CETMe consists of two main units: Academic and Research Unit and Production Unit (Media House).
Academic and Research Unit
The Academic and Research Unit is responsible for the following:
- Formulating guidelines and mechanisms for course design and development (print, audio-visual and online)
- Conducting capacity building workshops for academic staff of OUSL in writing self-instructional materials, designing and developing audio-visual and online courses
- Facilitating and assisting the development of course material (print, audio-visual and online)
- Administration and Management of OUSL online courses
- Copy editing and language editing of OUSL course materials and other OUSL publications
- Ensuring quality standards of the OUSL course materials
- Carrying out Open and Distance Learning (ODL) research
- Offering short courses in relevant fields
Production Unit (Media House)
The Production Unit (Media House) of the CETMe is equipped with a fully-fledged digital hi- definition television studio, dubbing and audio studios, makeup rooms and a post-production unit. It also has an audio-visual library with a collection of diverse video footage.
The Production unit is responsible for;
- Designing graphics and animations for both print and electronic media.
- Audio-visual productions of learning material
- Studio productions
- Event coverage – Still photography and live video coverage
- Outsourcing studio and providing production facilities