解讀遠程教育──本刊編輯、記者與ICDE主席詹姆斯˙泰勒的對話

Analysis of Distance Education─An Interview with Prof. James Taylor, Chairman of ICDE

ICDE是國際開放與遠程教育協會的英文縮寫。協會現任主席詹姆斯˙泰勒（James Taylor）教授來自澳大利亞南昆士蘭大學，曾是主管環球學習事務的副校長。今年2月18日，由ICDE主辦的兩年一屆的國際遠程教育大會在中國香港舉辦。應大會組織委員會主席、香港公開大學校長潭尚渭的邀請，和ICDE詹姆斯˙泰勒主席的應允，本刊記者計劃出席這次國際遠程教育領域最具規模和權威的盛會，但記者中原因故未能出席，而只能授權赴港參會的上海遠程教育集團吳鈞副研究員，以本刊特約記者的身份，與詹姆斯˙泰勒教授進行了一次近距離對話。對於記者的到訪，香港公開大學遙距與成人教育研究中心研究員張偉遠博士給予了盛情接待，並專門派中心的區婉斯小姐作記者的隨同譯員，共同完成了這次”高階訪談”。本文已記者吳鈞與詹姆斯˙泰勒教授的對話為主，編輯部在其對話之後略做了補充性評論，目的在於讓讀者更清晰地了解我們的採訪和編輯思想。

ICDE is the abbreviation of International Council of Open and Distance Education. Prof. James Taylor is the Chairman of ICDE now.The 21st ICDE World Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education was held in Hong Kong， China on Feb. 18， 2004. Zhong yuan， the reporter of the journal， was invited to take part in the conference by the president of OUHK， the chairman of the conference， but couldn’t attend it for other reason. So associate prof. Wu Jun from Shanghai Distance Education Group， as the special reporter of the journal， had an interview with prof. James Taylor. Dr. Zhang Weiyuan of OUHK had provided great help for the interview. Ms. Ou Wansi acted as the interpreter. The report is based on the dialogues between Wu Jun and James Taylor. The editor added some comments after each dialogue so that the readers can understand the aim of the interview.