The Important Role Distance Education Plays in the Lifelong Education System

Lifelong education,as an international education thought and idea. has transformed from the initial theoretical pattern to present practical pattern. To construct lifelong education system and build a learning society,on one hand,we need a system and mechanism reform;on the other hand,the innovation of means and methods is also needed. Distance education,as a new mode of education,is chief means of constructing lifelong education system in the era of knowledge economy and also the first choice for people's lifelong study in learning society. Distance education,with its unique advantages,will surely play an important role in the lifelong education system. It will become an effective carrier of lifelong education,a service platform for all the people to learn,and the mainstay of learning society. Furthermore. distance education will affect people's way of studying and living on the social level;politically,it could be a path to realize educational equity. While on the organizational level,it provides a thorough service system for learners:and individually,it also lays the groundwork for learners' autonomic studying. With the development of distance education,the beautiful dream of everybody learns whenever and whereverwill be realized.