An Ecological Model of E-learning in a Chinese Context：Critical Reflections of Five Years’Practice of E-learning Management in the BIOE

摘要

The paper presents critical reflections of five years’hands-on expefiences of setting up and managing an eqearning institute,the Beiwai Institute of Online Education(BIOE).It first spells out the Chinese educational context towards the end of the 20th century.This is followed by a critical review of the national ICT lnitiatives taken by the Ministry of Education,BIOE being part of the programme.The initial theoretical assumptions that underpinned the setting up of BIOE are analysed.The five years’practice functions as a natural testing period,as it were,of the assumptions.