随着技术更新频率不断加快,构建学习型社会的要求越来越强烈,高等教育自学考试应该担负起这一重任。它将成为学习型社会快速从理论走向现实的有效途径,这种教育形式是目前为止最适合构建学习型社会特点的,必将成为我国构建学习型社会有效服务平台的不可或缺的教育形式。本文从学习型社会与自学考试二者的关系入手,阐述自学考试是实现学习型社会的最适宜的学习形式,着重强调了自学考试教育的定位与发展应全方位为构建学习型社会服务。 With the increasing frequency of technology updates and the growing demand for building a learning society, higher education self-study exams should shoulder this task. It will become an effective way for learning society to quickly move from theory to reality. This form of education is by far the most suitable for building a learning society and will become an indispensable form of education in building an effective service platform for learning society in our country. Starting from the relationship between learning society and self-study exams, this paper states that self-study exams are the most appropriate form of learning to achieve a learning society, emphasizing that the orientation and development of self-study examinations should be all-sided in order to build learning social services.