Continuing education refers to all kinds of education received by people who leave formal education, take part in work and have adult responsibilities. Continuing education is an important part of lifelong learning system, and it is an advanced supplementary education for professional and technical personnel to update, supplement, expand and improve their own abilities. Its educational forms include adult college entrance examination, distance network education and so on. And it has the advantages of low tuition and national recognition of academic qualifications.

The origin of continuing education:

Continuing education is a new educational project developed in the United States in 1930s, which is called CEE. The purpose is to train some engineers and technicians, adapt to the rapidly developing production needs faster and better, and complete the tasks stipulated by new technologies and industries that are becoming more and more difficult to master.

The development process of continuing education;

The initial stage of theoretical research on continuing education is in the primary stage of theoretical research on continuing education, and the research level of continuing education by individuals and groups is still relatively low and at the primary level. It has achieved initial results in learning objectives, learning ability and adult education.

The theoretical research in this period mainly shows the following characteristics: First, the research method is simple, the logic is not strict enough, and the research results are quite different. Second, the research problems are scattered, unsystematic and not in-depth. Third, researchers only pay attention to the psychological research of adult learning and ignore other aspects of research, such as historical research and philosophical research. Fourth, most of the research results are obtained by sociologists.