This will be combined with additional initiatives including the development of awareness sessions through educationalTV programmes and the establishment of Community Learning Centres.
China Open Resources for Education is a consortium of universities that began with 26 International Engineering Technology (IET) Educational Foundation member universities and 44 China Radio and TV universities.
These machines use technology similar to videogame consoles of five years ago but have full-sized keyboards, display Chinese characters on a TV screen and can run a wide variety of educational and entertainment software.
This is Kinect Sesame Street TV, a fully interactive version of the award-winning educational program that goes on sale exclusively for Microsoft s Xbox game console in September.