The pros and cons of distance education

Advantages:

1. Cultivate students’ ability to learn independently. In distance education, the lecturer and the learner are not in the same area. During the learning process, the learner can move independently without much pressure and can learn easily. However, the learner must also have self-discipline to achieve the purpose of learning. Therefore, this kind of learning undoubtedly tests the ability to learn independently.

There are also many people who believe that online education is not necessary for learning and that knowledge cannot be learned. That is actually relative to people who do not have the ability to learn independently. 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. If learners have questions through learning, they can communicate with teachers online.

2. Break the boundaries of spatial communication. The biggest difference between distance education and traditional education is that traditional education methods are constrained by inconvenient communication due to geographical areas, but distance education breaks this boundary. As long as there is a network, there are no restrictions on location, and both the lecturer and the learner can You can use your mobile phone or computer to access the platform for teaching and learning.

The most important thing is that learning is no longer limited by time and place. This is suitable for people who are already working. They can use their leisure time to study independently.

3. Easy admission and high pass rate. The enrollment of distance education exams is different from that of traditional education. It enrolls students twice in the fall and spring. Learners can successfully enroll after passing exams or taking independent exams. Compared with traditional exam enrollment, it has a higher pass rate. It is more attractive to practitioners who have been reading for a long time.

As long as you spend a little effort studying, you can basically pass. In addition, the majors studied in online distance education are not restricted by majors. For some non-special majors, as long as you are interested or need it, you can generally apply.

4. Distance education diplomas are of equal value. Many people think that the value of distance education diplomas is not high. They believe that diplomas obtained by self-study exams and adult college entrance examinations are better than distance education.

In fact, there is no difference between diplomas obtained through distance education and part-time diplomas obtained through other channels. They are both nationally recognized academic qualifications. They have the same validity for subsequent studies without special requirements. Comparing the three, it is relatively simple to obtain graduation and degree certificates through distance education.

5. Break through the age limit. Distance education not only breaks through the limitations of time and space, but also breaks through the age limits of students. In order to meet the needs of society, many adults still need to study from time to time to enrich themselves. Modern distance education provides these people with excellent opportunities. As long as you have the interest and purpose of learning, coupled with your own conditions, it has become a reality to realize "live until you are old and learn until you are old".

6. The cost is relatively low. Distance education schools do not occupy educational resources, and the courses recorded by teachers can be studied in multiple majors, which ensures that distance education tuition fees are relatively low.

7. Effective integration of educational resources. For colleges and universities that host online education, various educational resources can be disseminated and shared using the Internet. Good teacher resources and teaching results will not be wasted and can be shared.

8. The quality of distance education. Compared with distance education, the entrance requirements are low and it is easy to pass the exam, so there is a so-called "wide entry". However, in order to ensure the quality of online education and teaching, the state and host universities will implement strict rules and regulations, and undergraduate education must pass the unified English and computer examinations organized by the state to obtain a diploma.

This ensures the rigor of distance education, and only those who pass the exam can obtain a diploma, which is called "strict education."

9. The learning form is interactive. Teachers and learners can discuss and exchange ideas on the Internet, thus shortening the distance between them and making communication between teachers and students barrier-free. Using computers, teachers can make judgments based on the types of students' questions, the number of people attending classes, and class attendance rates, thereby accurately helping students solve difficult problems and organizing teaching activities more effectively.

10. Teaching management is humane. The teaching management platform of distance education has automatic control management and remote interactive processing functions.

It helps students with consultation, registration, payment, course selection, inquiry, file processing, etc.

Disadvantages:

1. Unbalanced development. Distance education, which can only be completed using the Internet, is still greatly affected by the region in China. Due to factors such as the backward economic construction foundation, the developed regions in the east give priority to the development of distance education compared to the developed regions in the west. Therefore, it is difficult for the country to unify relevant policies, which also results in the objectively poor standardization of distance education.

Moreover, in a recent distance education status survey report, it was found that there are unqualified enrollments, and some learners do not have specific conditions for online learning. This will lead to teaching and learning being out of sync and even ineffective. Organize teaching.

2. Duplication of teaching resources. In order to keep up with the development needs of the times, many schools attach great importance to combining online education with distance education. Some qualified schools have begun to develop online distance teaching. However, there are many problems when various schools carry out distance teaching. One of them is The first aspect is the duplication of teaching resources.

When many schools implement remote teaching, in addition to the teaching management system, every course is completely redeveloped, which not only requires a large amount of funds, but also requires a large amount of manpower.

Nowadays, many schools’ online distance education is established jointly with enterprises. The enterprises provide funds and technology, and the schools provide teaching strength and teaching control. This kind of school running is basically a marketing behavior, blindly making profits. Pay attention to large-scale efficiency. In this case, the pilot schools work independently and it is not easy to collaborate, which can easily lead to duplication of teaching resources in each school.

3. Lack of professional talents. The main reason why the distance education model is very different from the traditional full-time education model is that the instructor and the learner are not synchronized in time and space. Under such a new system of online education, how to transfer the advantages of traditional full-time pedagogy to distance teaching is a problem that needs to be solved.

There are not many people who are proficient in network technology and have good teaching abilities. It is precisely for this reason that the evolution of traditional education models to online teaching has never been able to progress.

4. Teaching lacks diversity. Teaching talents who are proficient in network technology and have good teaching talents are scarce, which indirectly affects the quality of courseware that is crucial in online teaching, resulting in a lack of diversity in online teaching models.

Such teaching has a negative effect on students' later learning, which will weaken students' active motivation in learning. Students do not have a deep grasp of the teaching content and do not understand it thoroughly, which directly affects the quality of teaching.

5． Online distance education has hidden disadvantages. At present, people have insufficient understanding of multimedia network distance education. They only have a superficial understanding and blindly accept this emerging education model. Distance education also ignores the continuous progress of society. The development of information technology and electronic information products are changing the way we work and study, and new models gradually replace the old ones.

It does not pay attention to these distance education, nor does it combine social phenomena to innovate teaching, and just copy the practices of traditional schools. For example, in terms of teaching materials, most online education learning materials use the teaching materials of traditional education schools, and some are even unnecessary teaching materials.

It seems that online education is still using multimedia to copy and paste the old school education, and has not found its own unified logical structure. In the long run, the weaknesses of online distance education will not be effectively resolved, leaving online distance education at a disadvantage.

6. Online distance education lacks true feelings. The objects of distance education are very broad and there is no specific teaching group. Compared with traditional teaching, distance education lacks situational nature. The so-called situational nature refers to teaching in teaching activities based on real-life teaching scenes and combining students with each other. There is no meaning without the situation.

This is also a huge disadvantage of current distance education. Without emotion, this teaching model will become stereotyped and complete tasks in a repetitive and mechanical manner without additional emotions.

It is true that although distance education can achieve online communication, it is always separated by a screen, and it is difficult to understand people's emotions. This is why it takes a long time to observe and understand a person.

Because we are facing a cold screen, we cannot observe the learners carefully. With this limitation, the lecturer’s impression of the learners is only rough, so it cannot be based on each person’s experience. Design and change teaching methods differently. What's more important is that emotion itself is an important part of education, which is impossible or difficult to achieve in online education.