网络时代远程教育在终身教育中的定位和作用——“第21届ICDE远程教育国际会议”评述

本文是一篇关于“第21届ICDE远程教育国际会议”的评述。作为本刊专家,受编辑部委托,通过评述方式向读者全面介绍了本次会议的情况。本评述包括五个部分:第一、会议的概述。其中包括会议的地点、主办单位、主题、主要内容、论文的征集、参会人员情况等;第二、主题报告的重点内容。其中包括联合国教科文组织助理总干事约翰·丹尼尔、中国科协副主席韦钰、英国开放大学校长布伦达·葛丽、加拿大英哥伦比亚大学教授托尼·贝茨等人的演讲;第三、专题核心观点:未来大学会消亡吗?第四、现代远程教育实践的创新;第五、总结部分。作者希冀本文能帮助读者全面了解会议之内容和精神,及国际远程教育领域学者的最新研究成果,吸收会议产生的有价值的理念、观点和方法,进而改善中国现代远程教育的实践。

The Role of Distance Education in Lifelong Learning in the Networked World

This paper is a summary report on 21st ICDE World Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education, which is written by a conventioneer with comments for the academic magazine "Open Education Research". There are five sections in the paper. The first section is general information on the place, the host, the topic, contents, papers, and conventioneers. The second section is about keynote speeches, which were made by Assistant Director-General for Education UNESCO: John Daniel, Vice president of China Association for Science and Technology ; Wei Yu, Vice Chancellor of the UKOU: Brenda Gourley, and director of Distance Education & Technology in University of British Columbia: Tony Bates. The third section is about the plenary panel session : Will Universities Become Extinct in the Networked World?" The forth section is about the main innovations and trends on open learning & distance education through the conferences. The last section is a conclusion, the author expects the paper will give readers with comprehensive information and new innovations made in the world so that they can improve practice with the new philosophy and methodologies.