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What's the difference between correspondence and open education?
There are three differences between correspondence education and open education:

First of all, they have different meanings:

1, the meaning of correspondence: correspondence is a form of learning in adult higher education, and other forms of learning in adult higher education include amateur learning (night university) and full-time learning (full-time). Correspondence is also a teaching method. It belongs to a learning level of higher education, mainly according to the teaching plans of various majors, sending teachers to various correspondence stations to organize face-to-face lectures and examinations during winter and summer vacations or national legal holidays.

2. The significance of open education: open education is an ideal way to realize the sharing of resources in one school and many districts and mutual recognition of credits between schools; It is a beneficial exploration of the integration of teachers' academic qualifications and non-academic qualifications and the connection and communication before and after service; Constructing blended learning mode is the starting point of the integration of traditional education and online education.

Second, they have different characteristics:

1, the characteristics of the corresponding relationship:

(1) Correspondence has only two degrees, namely, a junior college degree and an undergraduate degree.

(2) Correspondence education is an adult higher education that meets the requirements of enrollment institutions.

(3) Correspondence education, like full-time and amateur education, belongs to adult higher education, which is recognized by the state, electronically registered and available on the Internet.

2, the characteristics of open education:

(1) You don't need to take the adult college entrance examination for admission verification.

(2) The teaching points are all around, so you can study on demand nearby.

(3) Implement a complete credit system, register once, the validity period of student status is 8 years, and the minimum study period is 2 and a half years.

(4) The learning style is flexible and convenient, and students can choose their own learning time and methods, which can better solve the contradiction between work and study.

(5) Students' autonomous learning is the mainstay, supplemented by teachers' guidance and examinations.

(6) Real-time and non-real-time learning mainly depends on modern educational technologies such as computer network learning platform and multimedia courseware.

(7) Low tuition, credit payment and light learning burden.

Third, the two teaching methods are different:

1. Correspondence teaching method: self-study is the main method at ordinary times, and face-to-face lectures are arranged about three times per academic year. 10 day or half a month. Face-to-face teaching time is usually winter and summer vacation. Some students are usually busy and may not have time to go to class. They can teach themselves at home and adjust their spare time so that they can arrange time to go to school when they concentrate on face-to-face lectures.

The main links of correspondence teaching are: counseling and answering questions, homework, experiment, practice, examination, course design, graduation design and defense. The school will have a unified curriculum and send it to the college for reference. So as to achieve a win-win effect.

2. Teaching methods of open education: learning mainly adopts written teaching materials, logs on to the remote online teaching platform of Central Radio and TV University and Yunnan Radio and TV University through the Internet, requests and downloads online teaching resources at any time for autonomous learning, and can interact with teachers and classmates to ask questions, discuss and communicate at ordinary times; You also need to participate in centralized face-to-face study, answer questions, or participate in group study at teaching points as required.

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