According to the knowledge content of literature, it can be divided into foreign education literature, China education literature and special education literature.
According to the time when literature came into being, it can be divided into ancient educational literature, modern educational literature and modern educational literature.
According to the way of recording knowledge, it can be divided into handwriting, printed matter, optical microform and magnetic circuit recording.
According to the form of recording knowledge, it can be divided into text type, audio type, video type and code type
According to the material form of the carrier, it can be divided into handwritten, printed, microfilmed, machine-readable, audio-visual and other documents.
According to the originality or structural level of literature, it can be divided into zero-level literature, first-level literature, second-level literature and third-level literature.