An Exploratory Study Of The Modern Distance Education Communication

Since1993, in accordance with the "To allow the Party members and cadres to be educatedand bring substantive benefits to the people" principle, the modern distance education programsfor Party members and cadres has been relying on the advantages of the traditional politicalcommunication by the Chinese Communist Party; mobilizing the Party members and cadres tostudy the theory, the policy, the knowledge, the technology and the service; enhancing theaffinity and combat effectiveness of Primary Organizations of the Party, and serving the overallpolitical economy construction.Nowadays, represented by the Internet, the new media provides significant informationsources and communication channels for the education of Party members, and also provides thenew carrier and method to enhance the education of Party members. So to speak, the moderndistance education programs for Party members and cadres is a new education approach thatcombined with the modern communication technology and the modern educational thought, andalso it is the result of the industrialization and the information era. In the view of investigation onthe Party members and cadres’ modern distance education system, The essay will be firstlyintroducing the current situation of the modern distance education programs for Party membersand cadres, then following with a comprehensive analysis of the three-level distance educationstudy platform of Central Government, Guangdong and Guangzhou, and finally focusing onanalyzing the media, the contents, the audience and communication effect of the modern distanceeducation programs for Party members and cadres.It shows the prospect of developing the modern distance education programs for Partymembers and cadres, as well as the suggestion for the modern distance education programs forParty members and cadres in the new era, by using questionnaires, interviews, textual analysisand case studies, and also combination of the work experience and the communication studies,pedagogical theory and relevant knowledge.