A comprehensive research on integrated development of external degree conferring system and distance higher education with multi-media utility

在三年的时间里，我们主要研究了日本和欧美国家的外部学位授予制度和远程高等教育制度的发展现状。我们特别关注了这两个职能整合的案例，以期对这些背景、政策、制度结构和未来承诺有一个清晰的认识。通过对这些基本事实的分析，对可及性和质量两个因素的平衡程度进行了讨论，并特别确定了美国的案例，这些案例代表了外部学位授予制度与远程高等教育整合的范例。即，西部各州合作计划的托马斯·爱迪生州立学院或西部州长大学摄政学院的在线课程，加州虚拟大学计划成为加州所有远程课程的网络，National Technol…更具逻辑性的大学利用了一颗广播卫星，凤凰城大学正在成长为全国领先的成人学习机构，斯坦福大学的技术项目以其对著名机构之一的IT利用而闻名。除了美国的这些机构外，我们还讨论了开放大学对多媒体的利用或英国伦敦大学外部计划引入远程教育，以及加拿大构建虚拟大学的软件开发。此外，我们还通过问卷调查的方式对美国外部学位项目中多媒体的使用情况进行了调查。在研究期间，成员们分享和获得了关于每个特定学术领域或社会背景的多媒体目前使用程度的信息。为了在所涉成员之间或与机构对口单位之间实现这种信息交流，我们选择将其作为我们的案例，以收集和分析材料，举行了关于实际系统和/或研究的知识的会议，并利用了研究网站。由此可见，本研究是针对学习评价和媒介利用教育这两个领域的理论和实证研究的双轮式研究。我们希望这份报告能对高等教育的外部学位和信息技术研究的发展有所帮助。较少

During the period of three years, we studied mainly about the present status of development of external degree conferring system and distance higher educational system in Japan and Euro-American countries. We especially focused on the cases of integration of those two functions to get a clarified perspective to those background, policy, systematic structure and future promises. Through the analysis of those basic facts, discussions were made over the slash hold of the extent of two factors of accessibility and quality to be balanced.To conduct the research, cases in United States, which represented the examples of integration of external degree conferring system and distance higher education were especially determined. Namely, on-line courses of Thomas Edison State College or Regents College, Western Governors University which was planned by western states cooperated, California Virtual University which was planned to be a network of all distance courses in California, National Technol … More ogical University which utilized a broadcasting satellite, Phoenix University which was growing as a national leading institution for adult learners, programs of technology at Stanford University which was know to its IT utilization of one of the prestigious institutions. Besides those institutions in United States, we dealt with the multi-media utilization by Open University or the introduction of distance learning at London University External Program in England and the development of the software to construct virtual universities in Canada. Additionally, we conduct a survey on the utilization of multimedia in external degree programs in United States through questionnaire. During the period of the research, members shared and gained information about the present extent of utilization of multimedia that defers in each specific academic field or by social background. In order to realize this information-exchange between members involved or with counterparts in institutions, which we opted as our cases, to collect and analyze materials, meetings were held to develop the knowledge on actual system and/or and web sites for research were utilized. As it is seen, this study has been double wheeled with theoretical and empirical means of approach against both fields of study-evaluation and media utilized education. We hope this report will be assistance of development in the study of external degrees and IT in higher education. Less