Narrow sense: Network distance education refers to the collection, design, development and utilization of various educational resources and the construction of educational environment by specific educational organizations, and provides educational services for students based on technology, educational resources and educational environment in a certain social period.
And for the purpose of teaching and socializing, organize some group meetings and exchange activities for students (in the traditional face-to-face way or modern electronic way) to help and promote students' distance learning.
In all activities, teachers maintain a quasi-permanent separation from students in the form of educational resources or as promoters of learning; Students and educational institutions (teachers) or students and students will maintain instant dialogue by establishing two-way or multi-directional communication mechanisms. Characteristics and advantages of distance education
Broadly speaking, network distance education is a new educational method with the development of modern information technology. The development of computer technology, multimedia technology and communication technology, especially the rapid development of the Internet, has made a qualitative leap in the means of online distance education.
Become a distance education under high-tech conditions. Web-based distance education is an educational method which is mainly based on modern distance education means, compatible with traditional teaching forms such as face-to-face, correspondence and self-study, and optimized by multiple media.
Network distance education can effectively play the characteristics of distance education. It is a teaching activity opposite to face-to-face teaching, separation of teachers and students, and non-face-to-face teaching organization. It is a cross-school and cross-regional education system and teaching model.
Its characteristics are: separation of teachers and students; Adopt specific transmission system and media for teaching; There are many ways to transmit information; The place and form of study are flexible and changeable. Compared with face-to-face education, the advantage of distance education is that it can break through the limitations of time and space; Provide more learning opportunities; Expand the teaching scale;
Improve the quality of teaching; Reduce the teaching cost. Based on the characteristics and advantages of distance education, many people of insight have realized the significance and broad prospects of developing distance education.