Online education, that is, Internet distance education, refers to educational activities that span geographical space. Distance education involves various educational activities, including lectures, discussions and internships.
It overcomes the limitations of traditional education in space, time, age and educational environment, and brings a brand-new learning model. With the improvement of informatization and networking, it will make great changes in traditional education.
The difference between distance education and traditional education
Distance education is a new form of education. Compared with traditional education, it is a discontinuous face-to-face education. When the concept of distance education appears, it is often accompanied by two different and related concepts: distance teaching and distance learning.
An in-depth analysis of the terms and definitions of the concept of distance education shows that Ji Geng's definition of distance education is extremely valuable, but it still has defects and needs to be developed and improved. The author will give a new definition of distance education and further define the relationship between distance education and distance teaching and distance learning.
Therefore, it is necessary to investigate and analyze the following topics first: the definition method of learning concept; The difference between education and learning in broad sense and narrow sense; The relationship between education, teaching and learning.