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Single institutions and governments will continue to
play a vital part in distance education. But with the
growing potential, availability, and use of Internet technologies,
the development of distance education is becoming an increasingly
international affair. Distance education institutions
have been among the leaders in developing and implementing
schemes for institutional collaboration, often across
national borders, and the trend toward such collaboration
seems likely to accelerate. At the same time governments,
particularly those in developing countries, have begun
to encourage their institutions to enter into collaborative
arrangements, as they recognize the possibilities of distance
education as a mechanism for national and regional development.
Further contributing to the trend of globalization has
been the growing involvement of international agencies
in the development of distance education systems, particularly
in developing countries.
But internationalization raises some complicated issues,
and distance educators and policymakers have had to review
and modify their practices. In doing so, they need to
know what problems other institutions and agencies have
faced in confronting these issues. And they need to address
questions such as these:
可供進一步參考的材料:
張亞斌(2001) 網絡時代遠程開放教育的跨文化教、學合作，中國遠程教育，第176期，2001年9月，18-22頁。
Ya Bin Zhang 2001, "Cross-cultural cooperation on
teaching and learning of distance and open education in
the web-based era", Distance Education in China,
Vol. 176, Issue No.1, pp.18-22.
顧建華 (2001) 中外現代遠程高等教育管理体制的比較研究，電大教學，第143期，2001年，第2號，8-11頁。
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