Title :
Modern Distance Education: A Special Open Complex Giant System
Author :
Li, Hui ; Li, Zhen ; Cui, Xia
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Autom., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing
fDate :
July 28 2008-Aug. 1 2008
Abstract :
Modern distance education is an important education style in China. With the rapid advancement of information technologies, especially computer multimedia technology and network technology, the distance education becomes an open complex giant system with enormous components and anfractuous relationship between them, causing its complicated structure and distinct features, such as openness, hierarchy, emergence, and immensity. It is requisite to adopt new theory and methodology to solve problems of complex distance education system. Therefore, complexity science and Hall for Workshop of Metasynthetic Engineering are chosen to study the emergence of insightful thinking and the improvement of cognitive ability in distance education system.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; distance learning; large-scale systems; open systems; China; cognitive ability; complexity science; computer multimedia technology; distance education; information technology; insightful thinking; network technology; open complex giant system; Automation; Computer applications; Computer networks; Continuing education; Distance learning; Educational institutions; Educational technology; Government; Local area networks; Software;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Software and Applications, 2008. COMPSAC '08. 32nd Annual IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Turku
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3262-2
Electronic_ISBN :
0730-3157
DOI :
10.1109/COMPSAC.2008.222
