CEMCA operates as a regional media service of COL. CEMCA functions through networking and information transfer. An advisory Council comprised of representatives from major open learning institutions in the region guides CEMCA for broad policy formulation, monitoring and evaluation. CEMCA’s services are available to all developmental and educational institutions and agencies in Commonwealth Asia.

In consonance with the mission of Commonwealth of Learning, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia promotes the meaningful, relevant, and appropriate use of information and communication technologies to serve the educational and training needs of Commonwealth member states in Asia.

Learning for Development is the theme of COL's Three-year Plan for 2006-2009. Conceiving of development as a process of increasing the freedoms that people can enjoy, the plan addresses an agenda that includes the UN's Millennium Development Goals, the goals of Education for All (Dakar), and Commonwealth's objectives of peace, democracy, equality and good governance. Increasing and improving human learning is the key to fulfilling most aspects of this development agenda. Conventional instructional approaches simply cannot expand quickly enough to meet the challenge. COL's role is to help countries use a range of appropriate and available approaches and technologies to foster learning at scale.

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