1. Cultivate students' autonomous learning ability. Distance education means that lecturers and learners are not in the same area. In the process of learning, learners can act independently and study easily without too much pressure, but learners must also have self-discipline ability to achieve the purpose of learning. Therefore, this kind of learning is undoubtedly a test of learning autonomy.

There are also many people who think that online education is unnecessary and can't learn knowledge. That's actually relative to people who have no autonomous learning ability. In fact, it is still useful as long as learners take the time to listen carefully. For example, some schools now open online education platforms, and learners can communicate with teachers online if they have any questions.

2. Break the boundaries of space communication. The great difference between distance education and traditional education lies in that the traditional education method will be restricted by the inconvenient communication in geographical areas, and distance education has broken this boundary. As long as there is a network, both lecturers and learners can use mobile phones or computers to access the platform for teaching and learning.

The most important thing is that learning is no longer limited by time and place, suitable for people who have already worked, and they can use their leisure time to study independently.

3. Easy admission and high pass rate. The enrollment of distance education examination is different from traditional education. It enrolls students twice in autumn and spring. Learners can enter school smoothly after exemption or independent examination, which has a higher pass rate than traditional examinations, and has great temptation for practitioners who have been out of books for a long time.

With a little effort, you can basically pass. In addition, the majors of online distance education are not limited by the majors to apply for, and some non-special majors can generally apply for as long as they are interested or needed.

4. Distance education diploma has the same value. Many people think that the diploma of distance education is of low value, and that the diploma obtained from self-taught examination and adult college entrance examination is better than distance education.

In fact, there is no difference between the diploma obtained by distance education and the part-time diploma obtained by other means. All of them are academic qualifications recognized by the state, and they have the same effect on further studies without special requirements. Comparatively speaking, it is relatively simple for distance education to obtain graduation and degree certificate.

5. Break through the age limit. Distance education not only breaks through the limitation of time and space, but also breaks through the limitation of students' age. In order to meet the needs of society, many adults still need to study from time to time to enrich themselves. Modern distance education provides excellent opportunities for these people. As long as you have the interest and purpose of learning and your own conditions, it will become a reality to realize "never too old to learn".

6. The cost is relatively low. Distance education schools do not occupy educational resources, and teachers can record many courses for professional study, which ensures the relatively low tuition fees of distance education.

7. Effective integration of educational resources. For colleges and universities that hold online education, all kinds of educational resources can be shared through the network, and good teacher resources and teaching achievements can be shared without being wasted.

8. The quality of distance education. Compared with distance education, the entrance requirements are low and it is easy to pass the exam, so there is a so-called "lenient entry". However, in order to ensure the teaching quality of online education, the state and the host universities will implement strict rules and regulations, and undergraduate education must pass the unified examination of English and computer organized by the state to obtain the graduation certificate.

In this way, the strictness of distance education is ensured, and the graduation certificate can only be obtained through the examination, which is the so-called "strict examination".

9. Interactive learning form. Teachers and learners can discuss and communicate on the Internet, thus narrowing the distance between them and making the communication between teachers and students barrier-free. By using computers, teachers can judge students' problem types, class attendance and attendance rate, thus helping students solve difficult problems accurately and organize teaching activities more effectively.

10. Humanization of teaching management. The teaching management platform of distance education has the functions of automatic control management and remote interactive processing. It helps students to consult, register, pay fees, choose courses, inquire and process documents.

Disadvantages:

1. Uneven development. In China, the distance education that can only be completed by using the Internet is still greatly influenced by the region. Due to the backward foundation of economic construction, the developed areas in the east have priority over the developed areas in the west, and it is difficult for the state to unify relevant policies, which objectively leads to the poor standardization of distance education.

Moreover, in a recent survey report on the status quo of distance education, it is found that there are unqualified enrollment, and some learners are not specific about the conditions of online learning, which will lead to the unsynchronization of teaching and learning, and even the inability to effectively organize teaching.

2. Repeated teaching resources. In order to keep up with the development needs of the times, many schools attach great importance to the combination with online education. Some qualified schools have begun to develop online distance education, but there are many problems in the process of developing distance education, one of which is the duplication of teaching resources.

When many schools realize distance teaching, except for the teaching management system, every course is completely re-developed, which requires not only a lot of money, but also a lot of manpower.

Nowadays, many schools' online distance education is jointly established with enterprises. Enterprises provide funds and technology, while schools provide teaching strength and teaching control. This kind of running a school basically belongs to a marketing behavior, blindly making profits and paying attention to large-scale benefits. In this case, it is not easy for pilot schools to fight on their own, and it is easy to cause duplication of teaching resources.

3. Lack of professionals. The main reason why the distance education mode is very different from the traditional full-time education mode is that the lecturers and learners are not synchronized in time and space. Under such a new network education system, how to transfer the advantages of traditional full-time pedagogy to distance teaching is a problem to be solved.

At present, not many people are proficient in network technology and have good teaching ability. It is precisely because of this reason that the evolution of traditional education mode to network teaching has never progressed.

4. Lack of diversity in teaching. The lack of teaching talents who are proficient in network technology and have good teaching ability indirectly affects the quality of vital courseware in network teaching, which leads to the lack of diversification of network teaching mode.

This kind of teaching has a negative effect on students' future study and will weaken their initiative in learning. Students do not have a deep grasp and thorough understanding of the teaching content, which directly affects the teaching quality.

5. Hidden shortcomings of online distance education. At present, people's understanding of multimedia network distance education is not enough, only superficial cognition, blindly accepting this new educational model, and distance education also ignores that society will continue to progress. With the development of information technology, electronic information products are changing the way we work and study, and new models are gradually replacing the old ones.

We do not attach importance to these distance education, nor do we innovate teaching in combination with social phenomena, copying the practices of traditional schools. For example, in terms of teaching materials, most of the teaching materials of online education apply the teaching materials of traditional education schools, and some even have no necessary teaching materials.

Online education seems to be still using multimedia to copy and paste the old-fashioned education on campus, and has not found its own unified logical structure. In the long run, the weakness of online distance education can not be effectively solved, which will put online distance education at a disadvantage.

6. Online distance education lacks true feelings. The object of distance education is very extensive, and there is no specific teaching group. Compared with traditional teaching, distance education lacks situational. The so-called situation is that it is meaningless to combine teaching with students in teaching activities according to real teaching scenes.

This is also a major disadvantage of distance education at present. Without emotion, this teaching mode will be modeled, and repeated mechanized tasks will be completed without extra emotion. It is true that distance education can communicate online, but it is always separated from the screen, and people's emotional aspects are difficult to ponder, which is why it takes a long time to observe and understand a person.

Because we are faced with a cold screen, we can't observe the learners carefully. With this restriction, teachers have only a rough impression of learners, so we can't design and change teaching methods according to everyone's differences. More importantly, emotion itself is an important part of education, which is impossible or difficult to achieve through online education.