本文将检讨美国高等教育领导所面临的一些规划问题,这些领导正努力作出有利于远程教育的决策。的确,高等教育的费用是规划中需要考虑的一个问题,它对远程教育有深刻的影响。远程教育的费用相当昂贵,但是相对其他的选择而言,它的相对成本还是有优势的。传统的大学费用推动了在中等以上教育中运用信息技术的好几个综合性的州内计划的试行(DeWees,1988),在堪萨斯、弗吉尼亚、康涅狄格、新泽西、印第安那和俄勒冈,立法议案已经提出或已资助州远程教育体系。这些体系因组成不同 This article will review some of the planning issues facing the leadership of higher education in the United States who are working hard to make decisions that are conducive to distance education. Indeed, the cost of higher education is one of the issues to be considered in planning and it has a profound impact on distance education. Distance education can be quite expensive, but its relative cost is still an advantage over other alternatives. Traditional university fees have prompted the pilot implementation of several comprehensive state programs that use information technology in secondary education (DeWees, 1988) and in Kansas, Virginia, Connecticut, New Jersey, Indiana, and Oregon, legislative proposals have been made or Has funded the state distance education system. These systems vary by composition