我国远程教育自50年代计始以来，经历了第一代函授教育、第二代广播电视教育时期，目前又迎来了第三代数字化远程教育时期。信息技术的发展，为教育技术的发展提供了广阔的前景，特别是为多媒体交互式远程教育方式提供了可能。各国政府及教育管理部门都制定了或正在制定本国的 Since the beginning of the 1950s, China’s distance education has experienced the first generation of correspondence education. The second generation of radio and television education has now ushered in the third generation of digital distance education. The development of information technology has provided broad prospects for the development of educational technology, especially for multimedia interactive distance education. Governments and educational administrations have enacted or are developing their own country