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Editor’s Afterword 249 Editor’s Afterword: Outstanding Issues This book has mainly focused on the issues, insights and achievements of the initial eChinaUK projects that took place from 2003 to 2005. At the end of those projects, we were all deeply aware that the process of developing mutual understanding and of achieving innovative developments in e-learning was only just beginning. We felt that we had particularly more to learn in the following areas: • in developing a deeper understanding of the pedagogic beliefs and perspectives that are held by the joint project members and that inform the design and delivery of our e-learning materials; • in dealing with scalability issues for courses that are designed to be interactive and that stress the importance of collaborative learning; • in identifying scalable and reproducible ways of training e-learning tutors, so that they can provide the support that is needed for effective online learning. As a result, the eChina-UK Programme moved into a second phase. A further set of projects was approved, and at the time of writing, these projects are being implemented. Information on these new projects and the insights that emerge from them will be made available, in due course, on the eChina-UK website: http://www.echinauk.org/. 250 Editor’s Afterword ...

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