V. Administration of Educational Technology

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Audio-visual Education Office in the Ministry of Education supervises the country's modern distance education, schools' educational technology and educational television station. It coordinates the administration of the CRTVU, the Central Audio-visual Center and CETV. The education departments of different ministries of the State Council are responsible for the administration of educational technology in their own system. The relevant organization exists in the education departments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government£® The administration of educational technology is strengthened.
The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, the State Council and the Ministry of Education promulgated series of regulations to spervise and regulate the development of educational technology. Education Law of the People's Republic of China stipulated that the government above county-level should give priority to satellite education and other modern teaching measures. The central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the State Council promulgated the Program for Chinese Education reform and Development, which points out that positive support should be given to radio and TV education and schools' audio-visual education. The modern teaching measures should be spread£® The construction of satellite reception and transmission network should be strengthened. Television teaching net covering most of the villages and outlying regions will be basically completed by the end of the century. The Ministry of Education regulated the Ninth Five-year Plan for National Audio-visual Education, in Which the tasks and targets are specified. The open up and modernization of teaching in radio and television universities should be speeded£® Levels of education technology and quality of the educational television programs should be promoted. The electronic teaching materials system should be formed. The research on educational technology should be deepened. The Decision on Strengthening Educational Reform and Promoting Education of Overall Qualities issued by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the State Council emphasized that the colorful audio-visual education and complementary computer education should be continued by making full use of the existing resources and electronic measures. The third national meeting on education shares the same opinion.

China has always paid attention to the function of non-governmental organizations. The Chinese Audiovisual Educational Association is a mass organization for the country's educational technology staff£® It has expanded to l00-odd group members in the eight-year history of the organization. Teachers and educational technology staff of universities including Tsinghua University, Peking University, and a large number of secondary and primary schools took active part in the theoretical research and compiling. Mass academic activities boosted the development of educational technology in China. International Exchange and Cooperation of Educational Technology China has developed international exchange and cooperation with many countries and regions and has attended meetings of international distance education and educational technology, such as the annual meeting of International Distance Education Council, the Asia and Pacific Educational Technology Symposium. China held Some international meetings as well including the seminars of UNESCO on distance education. China has sent delegations to visit more than ten countries and regions such as England, the United States, Japan, Canada, Australia, France and Germany and thousands of representatives from over ten countries and international organizations have been invited to visit China. Bilateral agreements are signed with Canada and France respectively.

The CRTVU became a member of Asian Association of 0pen University£¨AAOU£©in l993£® It has attended the annual meetings many times of the International Committee of Distance Education£¨ICDE£© since its entrance to the committee. What is more, it has developed wide program cooperation with England, America, Canada and Japan. It compiled Basic Japanese, a multi-media material for language courses, with NHK and English Courses with English language specialists. The three courses of Modern Enterprise Finance and Economy, Management and Analysis of Enterprise Finance and Marketing, have produced very good effects. The CRTVU will hold the AAOU's 14th annual meeting in October, 1999.

The Audio-visual Education Office of the Ministry of Education organized the distance education programs in 65 counties £¨most are poverty-stricken and minority regions£© with the United Nations Children's Fund. Some counties have carried out special training programs on medical care, environment protection, women and children. The contents are widened and achievements have been made. Strengthening the training of primary school teachers through distance education are jointly conducted by the Audio-visual Education Office of the Ministry of Education and UNESC0,Asia Bank of Development. It has positive effects at home and abroad. Non-governmental contact has been established by China Audio-visual Education Association with its counterparts in the world such as the American Association of Education Communication and Technology (AECT).