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With rapid development and expanding deployment of tele-Teaching and e-Learning techniques, many issues need to be further addressed. On the technical side, a large number of new IT techniques, spanning from multimedia and human-machine-interaction to network and communication, have been emerged in recent years which significantly promoted more and more modern tele-Teaching and e-Learning approaches and equipments. How to more efficiently benefit from these newly emerged IT techniques and create high quality virtual teaching and learning environment is always a challenge. On the pedagogy and management side, a lot of successful experiences and best practices of tele-Teaching and e-Learning have greatly triggered the interests of educators, researchers and developers. To push forward new applications of advanced tele-Education techniques, especially, create appropriate tele-Education based teaching programs, learning methods, as well as related models, polices, and regulations for formal high education, now becomes an attractive issue for the community. The establishment of pure Internet-based “Digital University” is a promising direction being confronted with various problems.