Inheriting Sixty Years of Essence in Adult Education and Forging the New Ecology of ICT Online Education - Exploration of Continuing Education Reform and Development in School of Online Education at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT)

摘要

China's distance education has gone through 20 years since it was founded. Socialism with Chinese characteristics has stepped into a new era. The principal contradiction facing Chinese society have been transformed into the people's ever-growing needs for a better life and unbalanced and inadequate development. In the new era, people's demand for education is no longer satisfied with the access to education, but to pursue better education. In the new era online education has responsibilities and it also has the ability to shoulder the historic mission of education balance and high quality of education. How to build and develop better distance education is a problem that distance educators must face and solve. The authors of this article proposes the way to develop distance education with the characteristics of BUPT by analyzing the mode of running the school of online education at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and implements the requirement of "perfecting continuing education, speeding up the construction of a learning society, and vigorously improving the quality of the nation" with the distance education model.