远程教育学基本概念与研究对象之我见

My Review on the Basic Concepts and Study Goals for Distance Education

千纪之交，在教育文献和大众传媒中出现平频率很高的一个词汇是”远程教育”，这与同期以计算器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。我国远程教育事业发展很快，远程教育从业人员队伍不断壮大，实践发展呼吁远程教育理论指导和专业培训。对远程教育的基本概念和研究对象作出清晰合理的界定是开展指导和培训的基础。远程教育是一种教育方式与形式还是手段与方法？学校校园中对校内学生的网络教学以及西部中小学通过卫星接收站接收和应用东部优质教育资源是否为远程教育与远程教学？网络学习、在线学习、数字化学习和E─learning是否京是远程学习？该文综述了作者多年来对这一论题的研究成果。

Since the beginning of new millennium， one of words that presented quite frequently in educational literature and mass media is distance education. This fact is related to rapid development of ICTs with multimdedia computer and Internet as the core. In China， distance education has achieved a significant progress， a great number of working force have been employed， and the development of practice needs guidance by researches and professional training urgently. Identification of basic concepts and study goals of distance education will lay down the base for further research and training. Is distance education an independent and separated educational form or teaching─learning means and methods？What about web─based instruction for on─campus students in school education and application of quality resources from the East China in use of VSAT system by the schools in the West China， are they distance education？Are networked learning， online learning， digital learning and E─learning all the distance learning？The paper summarized the outcome of the author’s research on this theme in the past years.