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What is correspondence education?
Correspondence education is a kind of distance education activity by means of communication. Students learn correspondence teaching materials by themselves, supplemented by face-to-face teaching.

1. Correspondence education originated from the British university promotion movement in the 1960s, and the capitalist countries established correspondence schools in succession after the 1980s. In China, the Commercial Press established a correspondence agency at 19 14.

2. Correspondence education has developed from sending letters to face-to-face teaching by establishing correspondence stations. This form has continued to this day, with little change.

Extended data:

1. Correspondence is a form of learning in adult higher education. 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.

2. Face-to-face teaching should implement the principle of less but better teaching. On the premise of ensuring the systematic teaching content, we will focus on the difficulties and doubts stipulated in the syllabus and the self-study of correspondence students, and pay attention to cultivating and improving students' self-study ability.

3. Correspondence education, like full-time and part-time education, belongs to adult higher education. The state recognizes that electronic registration can be found on the Internet. Correspondence education is an adult higher education, which meets the requirements of recruiting institutions and can be used for postgraduate entrance examination.

4. The normal operation of communication depends on various rules and regulations. The rules and regulations of correspondence stations play a very important role in standardizing correspondence education, ensuring its healthy development and improving its quality.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia _ correspondence Baidu encyclopedia _ correspondence education