1. The emergence of online universities has broken the time and space constraints of traditional universities, which not only makes it possible for higher education to be lifelong, but also provides a feasible way for higher education to expand its scale and reduce its cost.
2. The emergence and development of network technology and network university will improve the speed of teachers' updating teaching content, improve the teaching level and improve the methods of imparting knowledge. Because the information on the Internet spreads quickly and is not limited by time and space, students who are willing to accept new things have great autonomy. In the case of face-to-face teaching, the content taught by the teacher is likely to be what the students have learned online for a long time, or the knowledge is backward and outdated. In this case, students will of course ask the teacher to update the teaching content. On the other hand, after the development of online universities, for any major, only the best and most distinctive professors in the world are network lecturers, and other professors have to be tutors and assistants. For example, those who talk about the domestic economy may be authoritative people like Professor Li Yining, while those who talk about the international economy are mainly Nobel Prize winners and people who are already well-known in international academic circles. Especially for our country, because most of our textbooks are translated or edited by foreign original works, online universities will enable original authors to teach directly online. This not only reduces the translation cost, but also enables students to enter the English world at once and receive the latest and best education. The development of online universities will make many lecturers either improve the quality and efficiency of teaching or change jobs. In fact, among the pilot institutions of distance education in China, Hunan University has accumulated experience in this field. They compete on the basis of the basic course teachers in the whole school, choose the best teachers to teach online, and other teachers change to tutor or engage in scientific research, which not only reduces the teaching cost, but also mobilizes the enthusiasm of teachers and improves the teaching quality, which is widely welcomed by students.
3. Personalized education and on-demand learning become possible. Whether face-to-face education or online university, network technology has accelerated the process of personalized education and on-demand learning. In the face-to-face teaching stage, students can use other time to find many things related to the lecture content while listening to the teacher, which can greatly broaden their horizons. For those students who are unwilling to attend classes or have little interest in the courses they teach, they can find what they need and a world where they can display their talents online. "Books have their own golden house" is becoming an "online golden house".
4. Network culture will become an important part of higher education. Network technology is an open technology. The development of network needs an open social environment and an open culture. What is the connotation of network culture? The author is limited in knowledge and cannot describe it in detail, but there are several important points. That is, the ability to find and search the most advanced and excellent tools, methods or products in this field from the Internet; The ability to analyze, process, process and abstract the knowledge obtained from the Internet, and make creative copies; Cooperate and interact with others, discuss and communicate online, communicate actively, be able to publish your own ideas and achievements online and enjoy knowledge with others. The emergence and development of network technology and network universities will be more open and have more exchanges than in the past, no matter in teaching, scientific research, achievement transformation and high-tech industrialization.
5. The teaching mode will change from teacher-centered to student-centered. In face-to-face education, students revolve around the teacher's lesson plans and handouts, and a teacher must face a class of students. Teachers can't take care of the different needs of students with different acceptance abilities in teaching. With the emergence of network technology, students can choose courses freely, and even take classes and study in the dormitory through the network. Students can choose their favorite courses at different times. Even if the teaching time of the selected course is repeated, students can access the teacher's lecture content stored in the computer server in other time periods, so it is not necessary to listen to the teacher while lecturing. In addition, due to the computer analysis, processing and storage of teaching plans and teaching contents, students can study more easily and happily without taking notes and being distracted in class.
6. In addition to the above changes, network technology also makes the school's scientific research, teaching and achievement transformation more closely combined. People can quickly understand the market demand and technical development through the Internet, so as to make plans for scientific research and personnel training, and quickly feed back the research results to the market.