A network school is a multimedia teaching system based on modern communication networks, in which teaching and learning are free from time and space limit, and through which teachers can instruct the students who are far away from school; the students all over the country can learn, put and discuss questions, hand in exercise answers; teachers can communicate teaching experence with each others. This artlcle discusses the necessity and possibility of networks teaching in developing countries. The author argues that as the technology, especially digital technology booms, it makes human being enter into an information society. To meet the needs of the information society, an education revolution is emerging, which based on the idea of founding a learning society for lifelong learning. In this environment, for their existence and development, china radio and television universities characered by their open teaching systems must temporize to start teaching through networks based on digital technology, and that is the only way. It is argued that it is true that modernization level of open universities in developing countries is lower than developed countries, and they are short of financing support to open network schools. But it is absolutely possible to start network schools in developing countries according to the strategic ideas of "you can do something if you want to unless you don't" and the tactical guideline of "aim high, focus correctly, and distribute thoroughly". At the end of the article, an example is provided about the construction of a teaching network and the operation of teaching and learning in Hunan Radio and Television University, a local open university in China. |