What is distance education? Find a solution

Distance education refers to the teaching mode using TV, internet and other media, which breaks through the boundaries of time and space and is different from the traditional teaching mode of on-campus accommodation. Students who use this teaching mode are usually amateurs. Because you don't need to go to a specific place to attend classes, you can attend classes anytime and anywhere.

Students can also learn from each other through various channels, such as TV broadcast, internet, special counseling hotline, class research club and face-to-face teaching (correspondence). It is a new concept after modern information technology is applied to education, that is, education by using network technology and environment. Enrollment targets are not limited by age and previous academic qualifications, which provides opportunities for people who have entered the society to improve their academic qualifications.

Characteristics and advantages of distance education;

1. Maximize resource utilization.

Various educational resource banks have crossed the limitation of space distance through the network, making school education an open education that can radiate to a wider area outside the campus. Schools can give full play to the advantages of disciplines and educational resources, and spread the best teachers and teaching achievements to all directions through the network.

2. Autonomy of learning behavior

The application characteristics of network technology in distance education are: anyone, anytime, anywhere, starting from any chapter, learning any course. The convenient and flexible "five arbitrariness" in online education directly reflects the characteristics of active learning in the learning mode, which fully meets the needs of modern education and lifelong education.

3. Interactive learning form.

Teachers and students, students and students communicate in all directions through the network, which narrows the psychological distance between teachers and students and increases the opportunities and scope of communication between teachers and students. And through the computer, the type, quantity and frequency of students' questions are statistically analyzed, so that teachers can understand the doubts, difficulties and main problems that students encounter in their studies and guide students more pertinently.

4. Revision of teaching form.

In online education, using the unique information database management technology and two-way interactive function of computer network, on the one hand, the system can track and record the personal data, learning process and stage of each online student, on the other hand, the teaching and learning service system can provide personalized learning suggestions for different students according to the personal data recorded by the system. Network education provides a realistic and effective way to realize personalized teaching.

5. Teaching management automation

The computer network teaching management platform has the functions of automatic management and remote interactive processing, and is applied to the teaching management of network education. The consultation, registration, payment, course selection, inquiry, student status management, homework and examination management of distance students can be completed through remote interaction on the Internet.