Comparison And Study On The Undergraduate Teaching Administration Of Modern Distance Higher Education Between America And China

Before the 1980s, the credit transfer and the degree system among the American colleges and universities were very strict. The student, which completes his or her school studies in the different places, wasn't awarded the degree. This causes the students which live in the different places to be very difficult to obtain the degree of the famous university and creates the talent to be wasted. Therefore, the American Federal Government proposed to take the development of the modern distance higher education as the key point in order to impel the reform and the development of the American higher education. Hereafter, the American colleges and universities fully realized the potential prospects for development in the modern distance higher education and implemented the modern distance higher education one after another. The undergraduate education holds the important core status in the modern distance higher education, therefore, the modern distance higher education of undergraduate has became the most important part, which has the most quick development and the biggest scale in the American modern distance higher education at present. Its development increased the opportunity and the choice of accepting the higher education for the American citizen. Along with the establishment of this new education form in America, its teaching administration system also becomes matured gradually, with the characteristics of the flexible form, high effectiveness and so on.Comparing with the American, Chinese modern distance higher education starts too late. In 1999 Chinese Ministry of Education authorized four universities to set up the experiment project of the modern distance higher education. After the...