Correspondence education is a kind of distance education activity by means of communication. Students are mainly taught by correspondence, supplemented by face-to-face instruction. Teaching links include self-taught textbooks, face-to-face tutoring, exchange of questions and answers, concentrated experiments, internships, evaluation assignments, stage tests, final exams or exams, graduation design or writing papers.

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Correspondence education originated from the promotion movement of British universities in 1960s (65438-2009), and correspondence schools were established in capitalist countries after 1980s. In China, the Commercial Press established a correspondence agency at 19 14. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), correspondence education has made great progress.

Correspondence education in People's Republic of China (PRC) began in secondary normal schools. 195 1 northeast experimental school established correspondence department, and Beijing established correspondence normal school. Correspondence education in colleges and universities was compiled from Renmin University of China (the second half of 1952) and? Northeast Normal University (65438+May 0953).