Long-distance Education Looks Forward to a Rapid Development in ChinaEven children in the remote mountainous areas can share the same opportunity to attend the classes given by the famous teachers of well-known schools in Beijing via Internet and can send their homework by e-mail to those teachers for correction. With the fast development of China's long-distance education, the long-cherished wish is drawing nearer with each passing day.A network school information system for primary and middle schools designed and developed by Beijing Tengtu Development Company for Electronic Education has now brought forward an ideal blueprint for realizing network teaching in primary and middle schools. A survey shows that although various online schools cropped up one after the other, none has so far gained a scaled development, and especially the bandwidth bottleneck and other design problems make the network education fall far short of expectation. The Tengtu company has adopted a system by integrating the technique of wideband satellite broadcasting with cable TV and Internet together, using satellite broadcasting as internet's high-speed download channel to fundamentally solve the bandwidth bottleneck problem, which makes the long-distance teaching, online home-calling, material exchange and system management possible. The company is as learned to link up all school PCs, electronic classrooms, terminal devices and Intranet to form a school trunk network. |
| People's Daily Online --- http://www.peopledaily.com.cn/english/ |