E - Learning Centre (ELC)
E - Learning Centre (ELC) formerly Educational Technology Cell (ET CELL), a part and parcel of IIT Roorkee is situated near the building of Center for Continuing Education. This cell was primarily conceived to produce high quality Video/Web/Multimedia based instructional material, syllabus based content development for the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) project and short courses/training programmes for faculty for development of video/web based courses. Over the period of time, its role has been expanded to absorb new paradigms of e-learning, training of faculty to develop their own e-content and to use e-content developed by NPTEL, training of faculty from other institutes to facilitate streaming of video and web based lectures in their respective institutes, streaming of video lectures round the clock on demand, at IIT-Roorkee creation of question banks, quality control of e-content generation through feedback mechanism and conducting research related to pedagogies in e-learning. The cell has state-of-the art digital video cameras, non -linear editing systems, audio and video systems, teaching aids, substantial number of computers, servers and softwares required to produce high quality web based and video based courses and 3D-animation.
Resources and Facilities
The center has a state-of-the-art professional studio with virtual setup. It is well equipped with HD format for indoor as well as outdoor recordings. The center has latest high quality professional equipment’s to enable production of quality Web based and Video based courses. The infrastructure and technical facility of the center is as follows:
- Professional Studios
- Chroma Keying Setup
- Broadcast Quality 4K Cameras
- Video Conferencing
- Interactive Pen Displays
- Non Linear Editing Systems
- 2D & 3D Animation
- Web Services
We have two well equipped studios i.e. Studio A & Studio B : Studio A : having professional HD Cameras and recorders with Wacom interactive display & tablet for high quality video recording. Studio B : is a classroom with sitting capacity of 40. The production control room, in addition to the usual audio-video switchers, special effects generator etc, also on-line and off-line editing equipment. NLE’s: The cell has ten windows based, nine apple Mac Pro NLE’s and three high end graphics workstation. Software’s: Final Cut Pro, Adobe Master Collection CS6, AVID media composer, Camtasia for HD screen recording, Dragon Speech for voice to text convertor, Auto Desk combustion. Animation software’s: 3DS MAX, Lumion 3D, Lightwave 3D, Toonboom for 2D animation.