“远程教育”也有人称之为远距离教育。它是使受教育者在与教师相分离的情况下接受教育的一种方式。其实人们对远程教育的方式并不陌生,感到陌生的只是随科学技术的进步,远程教育方式被不断赋予的新内涵。远程教育悠久的历史可以追溯到十八世纪末、十九世纪初,函授教育可以说是最早出现的远程教学方式,这是通过邮寄印刷媒体进行教学活动的。但是随着生活和工作节奏的加快,来往邮寄费时耗日,无法满足人们对知识的渴求,也无法实现教师 “Distance Education” has also been called distance education. It is a way for educators to be educated in isolation from teachers. In fact, people are no strangers to the way of distance education, feel strange is just with the progress of science and technology, distance education has been given new connotation. The long history of distance education dates back to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Correspondence education was the earliest distance learning method, which was conducted through the print media by mail. However, with the acceleration of the pace of life and work, mailing by mail costs time and time, can not satisfy people’s thirst for knowledge, and can not achieve teachers