1. Open education is to open existing teaching resources for learners to refer to and learn freely. It has two meanings, one is the sharing of learning resources; The second is the freedom of learners. Open education is relative to closed education. It is generally believed that open education has the following basic characteristics: students and learning are the center, not teachers, schools and teaching; Adopt a variety of teaching methods; Cancel and break through all kinds of restrictions and obstacles in learning.
2. Open education does not have too many restrictions on students' age, occupation, region and education. Anyone who has a learning ambition and a certain cultural knowledge base can apply for admission without taking the entrance examination. The essence of open education is that everyone has the right to receive education for life, which means not only the openness to educational objects, but also the openness to educational ideas, educational resources and educational processes.
3. Open education can be carried out under the conditions of distance education or face-to-face teaching, but distance education is more suitable for realizing open education than face-to-face teaching. The combination of modern distance education and open education is what we call modern distance open education. Open universities all over the world are engaged in distance education. The development goal of Radio and TV University is to build it into a modern distance education open university with distinctive China characteristics as soon as possible.