4½ years, while the company in its operational phase lasted just over two. Even by the standards of e-learning burn-outs, this was fast. Unlike in many cases in the public or quasi-public sector such as TechBC or Scottish Knowledge, there was no organisation that followed on from UKeU, even in a general sense. However, a number of small components of UKeU continued more or less unchanged as spin-offs, including the eChina Programme and the e-Learning Research Centre. External links The URL of the UKeU was http://www.ukeu.com but the link no longer works as the company has ceased to operate and was finally wound up in mid-2006. Much of the original content on the site can be accessed using the Wayback Machine, however. Details of the House of Commons Select Committee on Education and Skills, their UKeU report and the evidence they received can be found at https://web.archive.org/web/20060812215051/http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/education_and_skills_committee.cfm A collection of reports on UKeU were in the past be found on a Higher Education Academy web site but most have vanished – though the UKeU Overview is still to be found on the HE Academy site at http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/resources/web0279_ukeu_reports_1_overview.doc The collection of reports is now at http://www.matic-media.co.uk/ukeu/ Two further volumes of reports were in preparation for release but it is believed that the release has been delayed indefinitely. Various analyses of "why UKeU failed" have been produced, the most recent being https://www.scribd.com/doc/39811726/Lessons-to-be-learned-from-the-failure-of-UKeU References Universities in the United Kingdom E-learning Distance education institutions based in the United Kingdom