Modern distance education is a new type of education that was bought about by the development of modern information technology and an important means of constructing a life-long learning system for people in the age of knowledge economy.

• 现代远程教育是随着现代信息技术的发展而产生的一种新型教育方式,是构筑知识经济时代人们终身学习体系的主要手段。