If students fail to turn up or a different group attends the session any planning is wasted. Teachers become aware that future sessions probably won’t go as they planned. While e-mediators, especially with teaching backgrounds, tended to plan for sessions the level of planning appears to decline rapidly after the first session.Some e-mediators felt that Indian students are very polite and smile a lot and that this may give e-mediators the impression that they actually understood what was being said or done. Concerns were raised by some e-mediators that students didn’t have a sufficient grasp of the English language and felt that this would make it difficult for them to fully appreciate exchanges between themselves and the e-mediators.E-mediators were generally upbeat about their participation in the ‘Skype Grannies project with 91% agreeing or strongly agreeing that they enjoy the Skype sessions and Eighty-eight percent agreeing or strongly agreeing that Skype sessions were stimulating and thought provoking.
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