| | | The Practice and Prospect of Distance Learning in Tsinghua University
| | 计算机论文mankind is marching into a new century characterized by an information society. conventional education methods are faced with severe challenges. by using the latest technological achievements and new concepts in distance education to establish a virtual university, which meets needs of engineers and managers to obtain all different knowledge, is the only way to construct a lifelong education system and achieve an environment for learning society.
the modern distance education is a new kind of models of education that takes the computer network and satellite communication technologies as its basis and multimedia technology as its means. it merges information technology into education and has been paid more attention in the field of education all over world. it will definitely produce a great impact and changes on education. meanwhile, it will promote the development of information industry and drives the development of economics.
tsinghua university is the first university which carried out the modern distance education among conventional universities all over china, and great progress has been made since the end of 1997 when the university just commenced on the project of distance education. through the practice, we have gained some valuable experiences and performed useful exploration for the development of the distance education and relevant policy formulating in our country.
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in february 1996, president wang dazhong of tsinghua university put forward the idea that tsinghua university should lead in launching modern distance education programs in china. the university council approved the project at the same year. the construction of the distance education system in tsinghua university commenced in june 1997 and completed the preliminary phase in september. mr. kuang-piu chao, a patriot from hong kong novel group corporation donated 150million us$ for the construction of the system that gave the full support for the smooth construction of the system. on november 20, 1997, vice premier of china li langqing visited tsinghua university. when inspecting the distance education program, he affirmed the achievements of distance education in tsinghua university fully and made important instructions on china’s development of modern distance education. he urged us to make more contribution in cultivating more high talents by sharing the excellent educational resources of tsinghua university with the people all over china, especially in remote border provinces and minority nationality regions. in the spring of 1998, vice ministers of the ministry of education of china wei yu and zhou yuanqing both visited the system on distance learning expressing their kind concern and support. many leaders from other provinces, cities and autonomous regions visited the program and gave us many useful suggestions. the distance education has been made encouraging progress and will be further improved under the guidance and support of the statecouncil, ministry of education, and so on.
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