The rise of knowledge economy and the change of the pattern of economic growth have made it possible that knowledge and intellegence has become the base of hi-tech industry and high-intellegence service. The absolute dependence of knowledge economy on knowledge and intellectual power is promoting the formation of the learning society. With this new kind of society coming, we will be confronted with many new problems in education (including TV university distance education) and we must make corresponding changes in it to meet the needs of the society and the learners. The open learning, with the individualized learning as its main form, has reflected the inexorable trend in the social and economic development and the objective demand of the development of TV university distance education and has conformed to the trend of the modern distance education In order to make China's TV universities meet the needs of the learning so-ciety, we should make a serious study of the characteristics of the open study and with the scientifi cap-proach of seeking truth from facts. we should also work hard at idea forming, network and medium develop-ment, educational reform and service improvment and so on. And as a result, we will construct the open and distance learning pattern which will meet the demands of the learning society and will be suitable for China's conditions