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在互联教育体系的研究中始终困扰的方法论问题终于有了新的发现，这就是 Stafford Beer的可生存系统模型(Viable System Model)，从Bangor 大学的研究来看，这个系统模型对研究教育系统非常有效，更能够把教育体系与信息控制的理论结合起来，反映出传统教育中的问题本质和变革的障碍（尤其是对官僚体制的分析）。非常有助于利用信息通信技术的发展去渗透和变革传统的教育模式。

有关VSM的介绍在国内非常少，可以说寥寥无几，对教育系统的研究就更是门可罗雀。所以，能够把这个理论与互联教育体系的根本哲学观点结合起来，一定能够发挥巨大的方法论作用，解决实践中的诸多问题。

有关Stafford Beer 教授的介绍，可以参考这里。

"Software projects often involve the management of a very high degree of complexity. All too frequently, complex issues are oversimplified to fit assumptions about how projects need to be structured. Once broken down into “simple” parts, work can proceed, with apparent progress. Unfortunately, when the attempt is made to integrate the parts together near the end of the project, the discovery is made that “the sum of the parts does not equal the whole”.

The Viable System Model provides a useful framework for an understanding of how to overcome these common difficulties." ---- Trevor Hilder, Cavendish Software