1. Online education realizes interactive and cooperative learning. In traditional classroom teaching, most teachers have no chance to communicate with every student in the class, and many students are afraid to communicate face to face with their teachers for various reasons. In online education, learners can not only download the teacher's lecture notes, homework and other related reference materials from the Internet, but also ask questions from teachers thousands of miles away, thus arousing their enthusiasm for learning.

2. Online education has completely realized personalized learning. Under the traditional classroom teaching conditions, teaching students in accordance with their aptitude and individualized learning are just an idealized pursuit. Internet makes it possible to teach students in accordance with their aptitude, and learning becomes a process of taking what they need, so that personalized learning can be truly realized. On the Internet, there is no unified teaching material and no unified progress. Every learner can learn in his own way at his own convenience according to his own characteristics.

3. Online education makes education socialized and learning life-oriented. In the current information age, a large number of new knowledge and new things emerge at any time and place, and people are bound to move from one-time school study to lifelong study, while the Internet provides strong support for education to go out of campus and go to society.

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Modern 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: students and teachers are separated; 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.