1, open

Modern distance education is not limited by region, and learners are not limited by occupation and region. Modern distance education is not limited by study time, and anyone can receive the needed educational information at any time.

2. Self-help flexibility

Distance education can adjust the teaching content in time according to the different needs and characteristics of the educational objects, so as to teach students in accordance with their aptitude. Educated people can arrange their own study time flexibly and independently, and are not limited by the fixed time of traditional teaching methods.

3. Resource sharing

Modern distance education realizes the optimization and sharing of all kinds of educational resources, so that more people can get a higher level of education at the same time.

4. Expansibility

Distance education disseminates educational information by means of various media technologies, which actually disseminates educational resources and educational functions. Through this diffusion, I will extend my educational function to the whole society.

Extended data

The teaching methods of distance education mainly include:

(1) Non-real-time teaching is conducted through the Internet, using resources such as web pages and courseware provided by the online teaching platform.

(2) Two-way or one-way real-time teaching through satellite, Internet and video conference system.

(3) Non-real-time teaching is carried out through resources such as courseware burned on the teaching CD.

(4) Real-time or non-real-time teaching through mobile communication tools such as mobile phones.

(5) Answer questions through centralized face-to-face tutoring.

The vast majority of pilot universities generally adopt two or more teaching methods in the implementation of online teaching, forming a mixed teaching mode combining online and offline, fixed and mobile, asynchronous and synchronous, decentralized and centralized.

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