远程教育发展的社会、经济和技术基础——世界远程教育发展历史追溯和展望(4)

The social,economic and technological foundations for the development of distance education——Review and prospect of distance education in the world(4)

信息时代是对未来时代的本质界定,知识经济正在和将会引起社会各个领域的重大改革。在未来教育的革新和发展中,建立在电子信息通信技术基础之上的教育技术和远程教育将发挥重大作用。

The ‘information age’ defines the nature of the forthcoming era.Knowledge economy is triggering off reforms in a number of areas in the society.Educational technology in distance education based on information and telecommunication technologies will play a vital role in the reform and development of future education.