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• Management System and Operation DELIVERY SYSTEM AND
Mechanism.The management of online TECHNOLOGY USE
education colleges in regular institutions The development of an open and distance
of higher learning is divided into two education teaching system needs the
categories, i.e., independently organized support of information and communication
and non-independently organized online technology. The innovative application of
education colleges. Independently information and communication technology
organized colleges are set up separately will drive the future development of the open
by pilot institutions of higher learning, and distance education teaching system.
and are independently responsible This section will review the three stages of
for the management of their human the development of the open and distance
resources, money, and property. The education teaching system in China, exploring
non-independently organized ones are the role of the innovative application of
component parts of continuing education information technology as a precursor to the
colleges and distance and continuing current experiences of the development of
education colleges. The second type the open and distance education teaching
of online education colleges, along system in China.
with their off-campus study centers
and correspondence stations, either 1. Stage One: Radio and TV Education
maintain independent management and In the 1970s, China started to build a top-
operation or accept unified management down RTVU system from the central to
under secondary colleges in terms of the local. The extensive application of
human resources, finance, and property, radio and TV technology promoted the
in the latter of which the teaching reform development and popularization of open
is gradually implemented and improved and distance education (Yang & Zhang,
under the unified management 2019). At that time, the RTVU system
system, training schemes, and platform created a series of audio and video
management with correspondence courses which were sent to learners via
education as well as evening universities. TV stations, satellite education TVs, and
radio stations.

With the increasing maturity of the
application of radio and TV technologies,
open and distance education gradually
developed two methods of teaching
delivery. The first was programs broadcast
by teaching institutions with the help
of radio or radio and TV technologies
and received or watched by learners
with radio or TV terminals. Although the

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