Dear Colleague I'm forwarding this on behalf of my colleague Helen Spencer-Oatey at the eChina-UK programme who is pleased to announce the launch of the revamped eChina website. I hope you find if of interest. Regards Eddie ************************************************************************ ******** e-Learning and China Are you interested in e-learning design, policy and practice? Are you involved in international collaboration? Do you want to work with China? Are you interested in trying out some free tools? If so, then the eChina-UK Programme website, http://www.echinauk.org/ may be of interest to you. On this website, you have the opportunity to: - Explore and interact with examples of the e-learning materials we have developed - Find out about education and e-learning in China - Learn from our experiences of collaborative teamworking - Try out and download the free tools (e.g. video annotation and the Workspace) that we have developed - Download papers and presentations by team members The eChina-UK Programme is a collaborative e-learning initiative in education, involving key British and Chinese universities, and with 4 million pounds of investment from HEFCE (the Higher Education Funding Council for England). The Programme is in its second phase, and project foci include the development of online courses in: ELT teacher training, English for Academic Exchange, e-tutor training.