The characteristics of educational informatization can be divided into technical characteristics and educational characteristics.

From a technical point of view, the basic characteristics of educational informatization are digitalization, networking, intelligence and multimedia.

Digitalization makes the educational information technology system simple in equipment, reliable in performance and unified in standards; Networking enables information resources to be shared, the time and space of activities are not so limited, and interpersonal cooperation is easy to achieve; Intelligentization makes the system humanized in teaching behavior, naturalized in man-machine communication and entrusted in complex tasks; Multimedia makes media equipment integrated, information expression diversified and complex phenomena virtualized.

From the perspective of education, the basic characteristics of educational informatization are openness, sharing, interactivity and collaboration.

Opening makes education socialized and autonomous, and sharing is the essential feature of informatization, which provides rich teaching resources for education and teaching. Interaction enables learners to ask questions to teachers and communicate with other learners, while collaboration enables educators to have more time and space to collaborate and discuss with others.