The advantages of modern distance education are:

1. Cultivate students' autonomous learning ability. Distance education means that lecturers and learners are not in the same area. In the process of learning, learners can act independently and study easily without too much pressure, but learners must also have self-discipline ability to achieve the purpose of learning. Therefore, this kind of learning is undoubtedly a test of learning autonomy. There are also many people who think that online education is unnecessary and can't learn knowledge. That's actually relative to people who have no autonomous learning ability. In fact, it is still useful as long as learners take the time to listen carefully. For example, some schools now open online education platforms, and learners can communicate with teachers online if they have any questions.

2. Break the boundaries of space communication. The great difference between distance education and traditional education is that the traditional education method will be restricted by the inconvenient communication in geographical areas, and distance education has broken this boundary. As long as there is a network, it is not limited by location. Lecturers and learners can use mobile phones or computers to access the platform for teaching and learning. The most important thing is that learning is no longer limited by time and place, and it is suitable for people who have already worked. They can use their leisure time to teach themselves.

The hidden disadvantage of network distance education;

1. At present, people's understanding of multimedia network distance education is not enough, but their cognition is superficial, and they blindly accept this new educational model, while distance education also ignores that society will continue to progress. With the development of information technology, electronic information products are changing the way we work and study, and new models are gradually replacing the old ones. We do not attach importance to these distance education, nor do we innovate teaching in combination with social phenomena, copying the practices of traditional schools. For example, in terms of teaching materials, most of the teaching materials of online education apply the teaching materials of traditional education schools, and some even have no necessary teaching materials. Online education seems to be still using multimedia to copy and paste the old-fashioned education on campus, and has not found its own unified logical structure. In this way, the weakness of online distance education can not be effectively solved, which will make online distance education at a disadvantage.

2. Online distance education lacks true feelings. The object of distance education is very extensive, and there is no specific teaching group. Compared with traditional teaching, distance education lacks situational. The so-called situation is that it is meaningless to combine teaching with students in teaching activities according to real teaching scenes. This is also a major disadvantage of distance education at present. Without emotion, this teaching mode will be modeled, and repeated mechanized tasks will be completed without extra emotion. Distance education can indeed communicate online, but it is always separated from the screen, and people's emotions are difficult to ponder. This is why it takes a long time to observe and understand a person, because we are faced with a cold screen and we can't observe the learners carefully. With this restriction, the lecturer's impression of learners is only rough, so we can't design and change teaching methods according to everyone's differences. More importantly, emotion itself is an important part of education, which is impossible or difficult to achieve through online education.