Shahid Rasool took over as the Director of Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia
Miscellaneous
India
Shahid Rasool, a communication technology specialist, on 7 June 2016 took charge as the Director of the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA).
Rasool will guide CEMCA in its mission to ensure effective utilisation of educational media resources for distance education.
He was earlier the Director of the Educational Multimedia Research Centre, University of Kashmir. He earned his MS Degree in Communication Technology from Syracuse University and has a doctorate in mass communication and journalism from the University of Kashmir.
About Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA)
• CEMCA is an arm of the Vancouver-based Commonwealth of Learning (COL).
• Headquartered in New Delhi, CEMCA was set up in 1994 in response to calls by Asian Commonwealth countries for a greater focus on distance education.
• CEMCA was established as a regional centre to promote meaningful, relevant and appropriate use of Media and Technology to serve the educational and training needs of the Commonwealth Member States of Asia.
• CEMCA works in eight Commonwealth Countries of Asia including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia and Singapore.
