美、加远距离开放教育的特点与启示

Attributes and Inspirations of Distant Education in America and Canada

教育的大众化、社会化、终身化、现代化、远距离化是世界教育的发展趋势。随着传播媒介的不断进步，远距离开放教育显示了十分广阔的发展前景。本文在分析美国和加拿大远距离开放教育的特点的基础上，探讨了美SO加远距离开放教育对我国教育发展的借鉴意义。

It is a global trend that education is getting more popularized,and modemized and is covering man's entirer lifetime and space. The constant advance in communication media offers broad and bright prospects for open distant eduction. This articlemakes an analysis of the attributes of open distant education in the U. S. and Canada, from which it attempts to draw some experience valuable to the development of education in China.