函授教育是以“函”为教学手段的一种教学形式,它主要是以“函”为媒介体,沟通教与学的联系,是一种开放式教育。半个世纪以来,高等函授教育作为我国成人教育的重要办学形式,为国家培养了数以百万计的各类专门人才,极大地缓解了广泛的社会需求与有限的高等教育资源之间的矛盾,对充分利用我国高等教育资源,提高办学效益,密切高等学校与社会的联系,发挥了积极的作用。 Correspondence education is a kind of teaching method taking “letter” as the teaching method. It is mainly based on “letter” as the media body, and it is an open education to communicate the connection between teaching and learning. For half a century, higher correspondence education, as an important form of adult education in our country, has trained millions of professionals of all kinds for the country and has greatly eased the contradictions between a wide range of social needs and the limited resources of higher education , Which has played a positive role in making full use of the resources of higher education in our country, improving the efficiency of running schools and closely linking the higher education with the society.