二十世纪的教育要培养具备大素质的人才,而大素质的培育有赖于教育的信息化和现代化。本文以大素质人才目标为基点,以传统大学教育为比较对象,揭示了现代远程教育对教育宗旨、教育手段、教育模式等方面的革新,阐明了现代远程教育培养适应知识经济化、生活信息化、空间全球化和体制市场化人才的优势,展示了现代远程教育在大众化教育和终身教育中的重要地位和美好前景。 The education in the 20th century should train qualified personnel, and the cultivation of great quality depends on the informatization and modernization of education. In this paper, the goal of large-scale qualified personnel as a starting point to the traditional university education as a comparative object, reveals the modern distance education on education purposes, educational tools, educational models and other aspects of innovation, clarifying the modern distance education to adapt to knowledge-based economy, life information , The advantages of space globalization and institutionalized market-oriented talents demonstrate the important status and bright future of modern distance education in popular education and lifelong education.