Distance education is a way of education that is very different from traditional face-to-face classroom education, and it is an educational way that teachers and students conduct at different times and places. The biggest feature is that it breaks through the time and space limitation of traditional education methods.

Distance education, also known as online education in some documents issued by the Ministry of Education, is a kind of adult education qualifications. It 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 staying in school. Students who use this teaching mode are usually amateurs.