Exploration of High Rate of Dropout in Distance Educaion

Statistic data at home and abroad demonstrates that the rate of dropout of distance learners in the area of distance education far surpasses that of learners in the area of traditional education,and in Asia the rate up to 50%. In the overseas the relative research on the dropout began earlier,and there have been some ready theories.But there are few of them as to how to solve this problem of dropout.In our country we started the same research about dropout later and we are lack of relative and respective theories.Based on the basic work and actual practice,this paper analyzes the characteristics of distance learners'dropout,and the main reasons for the dropout,according to the data analyzing,and then tries to manage a series of ways or measures taken to solve the same.It is expected to have some benefits to solve this problem of distance learners dropout.