Distance Learning Support Platform For Research And Prototype Development

With the development of the Internet, Human society in the 21st century is the society of information and knowledge. The knowledge of mankind is updating fast. A research has testified that the knowledge an engineer can learn in the university would be useful only for five years. Study work will become a lifelong work of people. With the development of distant education based on Internet, the methods of knowledge's propagation are stereoscopic, non-lineal, and multi-experiential. Distant education will definitely become a main method of learning in the human society.Modern distant education is a new education form using multi-media technology, through which communication between students and teachers or students and education organizations will be advanced. Learners will study unlimitedly within the space and time. Rich sources of education can be shared freely. The focus of the new education form will change, from teaching to learning. Modern distant education will provide independent personalization learning, and the process of education will be paid more attention.Distant education based on Internet moves traditional education to network, and combines all kinds of modern information techniques, such as multimedia, database, and network, etc. It is an important application of Internet to education.With achievements of author who has dedicated to CAI education and research for many years, this thesis mainly includes the followings:1. Introduce the background, source, and target of the thesis.2. Mainly introduce the history, effect, and composition of CAI, and relatively technology.3. Mainly introduce the environment and effect of CBE, and its current development in China and abroad.4. Introduce the effect of multimedia on distant education.5. Introduce tools and methods of courseware manufacture.6. Introduce the application of Web technology to distant education.7. In detail, introduce the construction and function of our development project, Education System Based on Network, including online learning, online discussion, online examination, and distant answer, etc.8. Conclusion and prospect...