EduwebTV

The Education Ministry has targeted an increase
to 50 per cent in Internet access from homes through
EduwebTV by the year-end with the giving away of
1Malaysia laptop computers to students.

Its deputy minister Dr Mohd Puad Zakarshi said
EduwebTV programmes introduced by the ministry
on March 1, 2008 to produce an IT-savvy generation
achieved on average 500,000 accesses a month with
33 per cent of them made from houses.

He said students who received the 1Malaysia laptops
 were encouraged to use the facility to surf EduwebTV
 programmes which enabled them to continue with
lessons from their homes.

"In line with the government''s objective in giving away
the computers, the students can derive benefits learning
from EduwebTV which has eight channels and
3,185 programmes," he told a news conference after
handing over 667 laptops to 12 schools in the Kapar
parliamentary constituency.Mohd Puad said among the
programmes which could be viewed through EduwebTV
were the education news (in English and Bahasa Malaysia),
academic programmes, features, interviews, co-curriculum,
 interactive programmes and broadcasts from
the archives.