自世纪之交以来,在教育文献和大众传媒中出现频率很高的一个词汇是“远程教育”。这与世纪之交以计算机多媒体和互联网为标志的电子信息通信技术的迅猛发展有关。在我国教育界,事实上存在着“远程教育是一种教育手段还是教育方式”的争议。主张远程教育是教育手段的人士认为远程教育并不构成一种独立的教育方式,而是作为一种手段和方法、作为技术在教育中的应用而广泛地存在于各类教育中,包括传统学校教育、企业在职培训以及各类社会教育活动。而主张 Since the turn of the century, one of the more frequent occurrences in educational literature and the mass media is “distance education.” This is related to the rapid development of electronic information and communication technology marked by computer multimedia and the Internet at the turn of the century. In China’s education circles, there is actually a dispute that “distance education is an educational method or an educational method.” People who advocate that distance education is an educational tool think that distance education does not constitute an independent way of education, but as a means and method widely used in education as a technology in education, including traditional schools Education, corporate job training and various types of social education activities. And advocate