Distance education, also known as online education in some documents issued by the Ministry of Education, is a kind of adult education qualifications. It refers to the teaching mode using TV, Internet and other media, which breaks through the boundaries of time and space and is different from the traditional teaching mode of staying in school.
Students who use this teaching mode are usually amateurs. Because you don't need to go to a specific place to attend classes, you can attend classes anytime and anywhere. Students can also learn from each other through various channels, such as TV broadcast, internet, special counseling hotline, class research club and face-to-face teaching (correspondence). It is a new concept after modern information technology is applied to education, that is, education by using network technology and environment.
Enrollment targets are not limited by age and previous academic qualifications, which provides opportunities for people who have entered the society to improve their academic qualifications.
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Problems existing in network education;
1, uneven development
Distance education through the Internet is very different in China. Affected by infrastructure construction, the developed eastern regions are better than the underdeveloped western regions in the depth and breadth of distance education, so it is difficult to formulate corresponding policies, which objectively leads to poor standard procedures of distance education.
In a recent survey of the current situation of distance education, some problems were found, such as enrolling unqualified students, individual students being unable to surf the Internet, and teaching being out of touch with learning.
2. Talent shortage
There is a great difference between online distance education and traditional full-time education, which is mainly reflected in the unsynchronized time and space between teachers and students. Under this new teaching mechanism, how to transfer the advantages of traditional teaching to the network teaching process is a difficult point.
Few people understand network technology and the teaching quality is excellent. This has greatly affected the successful promotion of traditional teaching mode to network teaching.
3. The teaching mode is single.
Due to the lack of talents who know both network and teaching, the quality of courseware making, the interface between teaching and learning in the process of network teaching, is directly affected, resulting in a single network teaching model.
The relatively single teaching mode has a great negative effect on students' learning, which is mainly reflected in the deterioration of students' enthusiasm and initiative, and students' uncertainty about the depth and breadth of teaching content, thus affecting the teaching quality.
4. The teaching interaction is poor.
Due to the education and teaching process realized through the network, teachers and students are not required to be strictly out of sync in time and space, which objectively leads to poor teaching interaction. Students can't ask questions to teachers in time and effectively, and teachers can't give clear answers in real time.
Although BBS, MSN and other technologies are widely used in online teaching, compared with traditional face-to-face communication between teachers and students, the effect is much worse.
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