1, teachers' teaching and students' learning can be carried out at the same time in different places, and teachers and students can fully communicate;

2. Students can arrange the time and place of study independently according to their needs, choose the content of study independently, arrange the study plan independently, ask questions in study at any time and get answers in time;

3. Modern distance education means are conducive to personalized learning. It pays attention to students' autonomous learning and gives full play to their initiative, enthusiasm and creativity.

4. Its means can provide students with high-quality teaching services, and teachers can keep abreast of students' learning progress and answer students' questions.

Characteristics of American distance education;

1, "five noes" is convenient for learning.

The remarkable feature of distance education is that anyone can learn any course from any chapter at any time and any place. The convenient and flexible "five whatevers" in distance education directly embodies the characteristics of learning and active learning in learning mode, which is suitable for the basic requirements of modern education and lifelong education.

2, the national recognition of distance higher education diploma.

What is the "gold content" of its diploma? I learned from the Ministry of Education that distance education, like ordinary full-time education, needs electronic registration, and the diploma is recognized by the state. The degree obtained has the same effect as general full-time education.

3. The best way for on-the-job personnel to learn.

As far as the current social development situation is concerned, the speed of knowledge updating is getting faster and faster, which leads to increased work pressure and accelerated life pace of on-the-job personnel. In addition, most employees have no time to go to school for education. They generally have a strong thirst for knowledge and want to "recharge" themselves through various channels to enhance their competitiveness and adapt to the challenges of the new environment in the future. Therefore, distance education has become their ideal choice, which will affect the lives of more people.