The application characteristics of network technology in distance education are: anyone, anytime, anywhere, starting from any chapter, learning any course. The convenient and flexible "five arbitrariness" in online education directly reflects the characteristics of active learning in the learning mode, which fully meets the needs of modern education and lifelong education.

Interaction of learning forms

Teachers and students, students and students communicate in all directions through the network, which narrows the psychological distance between teachers and students and increases the opportunities and scope of communication between teachers and students. And through the computer, the type, quantity and frequency of students' questions are statistically analyzed, so that teachers can understand the doubts, difficulties and main problems that students encounter in their studies and guide students more pertinently.

The change of teaching form

In online education, using the unique information database management technology and two-way interactive function of computer network, on the one hand, the system can track and record the personal data, learning process and stage of each online student, on the other hand, the teaching and learning service system can provide personalized learning suggestions for different students according to the personal data recorded by the system. Network education provides a realistic and effective way to realize personalized teaching.