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What are the characteristics of online education?
1, self-management learning and self-discipline ability

Self-management learning is also called self-management learning. It is an ability to learn book knowledge and practical skills, including self-screening, setting goals, finding learning content, determining learning methods and ways, and self-managing learning process. First of all, learners must know themselves, that is, pay attention to and understand their own level; Second, judging and feedback, judging whether what you are doing is right or wrong, producing certain feedback information and certain reward and punishment behaviors. This ability is very important to cultivate metacognitive ability and plays a decisive role in the success or failure of learning. Students who are used to being encouraged and urged by teachers in classroom learning must have this ability in order to better enter the role of learners in online education.

2. Ability to obtain information

In online education, one of the characteristics of the cultural selection function of education is that the information absorption capacity is large, the absorption range extends to the whole world, the absorption content is diverse, the absorption rhythm is high, and the absorption means are stored in large quantities. Therefore, in the network education environment, the information is almost endless. How to get the most useful information in the fastest, most economical and time-saving way has become an urgent problem for learners. Therefore, students must master certain information acquisition ability, mainly including information query and retrieval, remote login, information browsing, downloading and comprehensive utilization. Cultivating information acquisition ability is the first step of network education.

3, information evaluation ability

Among the many information obtained, which information is needed for online learning and which information is useful for learning a certain subject, a certain major and a certain topic, this is the "pushing the bad" in the cultural selection function of education, and it is a process of sublation, which requires students to obtain the information they need through information evaluation, which is very important for the endless information network of the Internet.

It should be clear that. For students participating in online education, the ability to identify, select, absorb and apply new knowledge is more important. For example, for a large amount of economic information, they should have the sensitivity to capture business opportunities, while for a large amount of information, they should also have the insight and discrimination to distinguish advantages and disadvantages.

4. Information management ability

The learning process is actually a process of information transmission, so, just like the information transmission process, the information management ability in the learning process is particularly important. In online learning, information can be divided into books (including textbooks, reference books, etc. ), CDs, web pages, etc. From the storage media, there are words, images, animations, sounds, videos and so on. These are expressed in different media forms and stored in different media.

5. Information processing ability

In the process of e-learning, learners' homework, exercises, course learning exchanges and paper reports no longer appear in the traditional way, and students are required to communicate with teachers through electronic documents, which are not only words, but also other multimedia information that can explain the problem. Therefore, students must have the ability to integrate and process information in the network education environment. Students' information processing ability, first of all, is the ability to process and integrate information, and learners must master the production ability of electronic documents, electronic slides and network resources; The second is the ability to reuse information, how to collect online information and how to use it.

6. Communication and collaboration skills

In online learning, more emphasis is placed on collaborative learning, and one of the most basic requirements for realizing collaborative learning is to have certain communication skills. In addition to their own quality, mastering certain tools is conducive to the cultivation of communication skills, such as e-mail, ICQ, video conferencing, online telephone and so on. And these exchanges are more conducive to the development of cooperative activities between students and between teachers and students, and cultivate students' team spirit.