Distance education is a form of education in which students and teachers, students and educational organizations mainly use various media to carry out systematic teaching and communication, and it is an education in which courses are transmitted to one or more students outside the campus. Modern distance education refers to the education of transmitting courses outside the campus through audio, video (live or video) and computer technology, including real-time and non-real-time education. Modern distance education is a new type of education with the development of modern information technology. With the development of computer technology, multimedia technology and communication technology, especially the rapid development of internet, the means of distance education has made a qualitative leap and become a distance education under high-tech conditions. Modern 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 combination of various media.
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.
Due to the different ways and means of information transmission, the development of distance education has gone through three stages, the first is correspondence education, the second is radio and television teaching, mainly radio and television and audio and video recording; The third stage is the online distance education stage through the combination of computer, multimedia and remote communication technology. With the gradual popularization of television, telephone, computer and Internet, online distance education is getting closer and closer to us. For us in big cities, it has actually come to us.
At present, the number of participants in online schools is increasing gradually, which can be divided into three types according to different learning purposes: academic degree, vocational training and online charging. At present, there are two main learning methods: group class and individualized learning. On the other hand, various online schools can be seen everywhere on the Internet. There are online schools run by regular universities, studying undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and the qualifications are recognized by the State Education Commission. There are well-known national key middle schools engaged in online education-based college entrance examination counseling online schools; There are also some online schools for vocational and technical training organized by some commercial websites, which are used for online chargers. Peking University Business Network is the teaching executive body of Peking University's management distance education, which belongs to the first category.
Second, the requirements of distance education for learners
The characteristics of distance education determine that distance learning is mainly self-study, and most of students' learning time is separated from teachers and classmates. There is no classroom and no classroom atmosphere. These characteristics will inevitably make many students who have just started distance learning encounter some difficulties or are not used to it. Therefore, distance learning first requires learners to have two abilities:
Always keep spontaneous learning motivation. Most people who participate in distance learning are adults, and their learning motives are varied, but they are nothing more than improving their academic qualifications, increasing their skills, charging on the job, expanding their career scope and so on. They generally have strong learning motivation and clear learning purpose, but whether they can maintain the resulting learning motivation in the course of several years of study is the key to their success or failure.
The spirit of active exploration. Adult students should be able to decide how much time to invest in their studies, make their own study plans, and choose and gradually adapt to a learning method. Learning to learn has become one of the four pillars of education in 2 1 century; This is also of great significance to distance learners. In the specific learning process, when faced with a question, active learners will not only accept an answer, or wait for the teacher to tell you what kind of views or positions you hold; Nor will it be limited to a chapter or section of a book or textbook to find the answer. Active learners will actively try various solutions, establish their own ideas, and decide what to do and how to do it after active exploration. Peking University Business Network encourages students to actively explore, think and try to understand what they have learned, instead of rote learning and passive acceptance.
In addition, with the formation of information society and learning society and the arrival of knowledge economy era, education is undergoing profound changes. Learning in distance education needs to change one's learning concept and understanding.
Although there is less time for face-to-face instruction and higher requirements for autonomous learning, you can improve your learning ability through this new form of learning.
In the information society, people's living and working environment is changing faster and faster, and they need to face the emerging new knowledge and technology. One-off school education is increasingly unable to meet the lifelong social needs of individuals. Only by continuous learning can we keep up with the rhythm of life and work.
Modern distance education provides equal learning opportunities for all scholars, so that receiving higher education is no longer a right enjoyed by a few people, but a basic condition for individual survival; The universality of educational resources, educational objects and educational time and space provides the possibility for mass lifelong learning.
● Receiving education is not only about learning knowledge, but more importantly, learning to learn and cultivating good study habits for further study; Master the necessary learning skills. Learning to use modern information technology for autonomous learning is very beneficial to continuously acquire knowledge and improve education level in the future.
3. What teaching information can be obtained online?
At present, the online teaching information provided by Peking University Business Network mainly includes teaching organization and management information, course information, teaching trends, counseling information, BBS (bulletin board) and other educational information.
● Teaching organization and management information includes teaching plan, professional teaching implementation plan, course teaching design plan, course introduction, matters needing attention in various teaching processes and announcements, etc. , mainly used for the overall guidance of the teaching process, teaching organization and management arrangements.
● Course information and teaching dynamic guidance information refer to targeted guidance information provided to students in time according to the requirements of teaching progress, including explanations of key and difficult points in each chapter, synchronous homework, test questions and analysis.
● BBS discussion is mainly about topic discussion, feedback on learning difficulties, and answering personality questions. At the same time, through discussion, we can understand the practical difficulties of students in learning, so as to improve school teaching.
● Other educational information also includes class activities, notices of online school activities, and dynamic introduction of students' study and life.
Distance learning is a new way of learning, and it is not terrible for beginners to encounter some difficulties. How to make a study plan that suits you? How to overcome loneliness in the learning process? How to build long-term learning confidence? How to master the skills of distance learning? How to improve learning efficiency? How to treat homework and exams? This manual will help you overcome these difficulties and establish a personalized distance learning model.