Mike Taylor, of e-learning company Equiinet, said schools should be allowed to spend their "e-learning credits" on hardware that would run such media-rich materials.
The TCU provides scalable elearning teacher training including preparation to use ICTs, collaborating in curricula development with seven educational technology departments at universities.
Asked about how different such e-learning centres would be from community multimedia centres, he explained that the e-learning centres would be solar-powered, genuinely community-led, and dependent on local expertise.