远程教育院校发展的际代研究

Generation Research on the Development of Distance Education Institutions

远程教育院校自问世以来经历了数次的变革，本文以远程教育院校的历史演变为切入点，综合采用历史研究、文献调研、比较研究以及案例研究方法，提炼概括出远程教育院校的四个发展阶段，并从中推演出远程教育院校可持续发展的趋势，以期实现院校的自我发展和自我完善。

Distance education institutions have experienced several times of transformations and developments from the very beginning. Tracing the historical evolvement of distance education institutions as a cut─in point， the author generalizes four stages of distance education institutions， which are the stage of edge， stage of growth， stage of prosperity and stage of transformation. Generation research helps to deduce the sustainable development trend in order to fulfill the perfect status of these institutions.