Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) organized a brainstorming consultation, "A Journey from Listeners to Learners" on 23rd August 2022 at India International Centre (IIC)with the aim to discuss strategies and formulate plans for engaging listeners of audio programmes as lifelong learners.
The day-long consultation was attended by stakeholders representing different groups, including academia, technologist, civil society organisations, and community radio practitioners. The objective of the consultation was to understand the newer and novel methods in the use of audio content as learning material for skill development, livelihood generation and for behavioural change.
The consultation also looked athowa variety of traditional, emerging and web2.0 technologies can help transform listeners to becomeactive and effective learners.
After Dr B Shadrach, Director of CEMCA and Mr Hezekiel Dlamini of UNESCO provided their opening remarks in which they stressed upon thelong time need for integrating appropriate instructional design in audio content development and their use in learning programs, the participants further discussed if and how listeners could indeed be turned into learners and what are the building blocks that would help organisations to develop content for turning and sustaining listeners into lifelong learners.