摘要
社会变革为我国的远程教育发展带来的既是机遇也是挑战。对照现代社会变革的需要,当下我国的远程教育事业在发展中还存在较多的不足,期待我们积极寻求对策,趋利避害,不断增强其发展能力。
China is undergoing profound political, economic and cultural changes, which, in turn, make special demands on distance education and create new opportunities for it as well. As a result, distance education is playing an important role in turning China into a learning society. The distance learning mode is gaining more and more acceptance in China. Meanwhile, modern Information and Communications Technologies have accelerated the development of distance education. Nevertheless, distance education in China also faces new challenges, including a lack of recognition of its legal status, limitation on expansion with no license to award higher degrees, increasingly intense competitions for potential students and resources from rivals both at home and abroad, mounting tensions between scale, quality and cost-effectiveness, and adverse impacts resulting from the globalization of higher education. It is argued that distance education providers in China should face these challenges and look for solutions; otherwise, distance education will not be able to meet demands from a changing society and to maintain momentum for sustainable development.
出处
《中国远程教育》
CSSCI
北大核心
2008年第5期13-17,共5页
Chinese Journal of Distance Education
