| Distance education support platform system provides a basic running environment fordistance education and the whole distance education are processed on this platform. Thus,a general and qualified web-based distance education platform system is important for thesuccess of distance education.This paper firstly introduces the principles and concepts of Distance Education, andThen describes the main technologies of implementing a web-based distance educationplatform system, including LAN constructing technology, Network Database technology,method of building software development environment on Unix OS and so on. On thebasis of these, a general distance education system was designed and implemented.This platform system runs on Unix OS, which provides a whole remote learningenvironment. It supports all kinds of teaching activities like asynchronous teaching andlearning, question-answering, real-time communicating between teachers and studentson-line and so on. Through this platform system, the students are able to register on-lineand put homework by network. This system also provides a lot of function for teachermanagement, which aid teachers to manage distance education process on-line, such aspublishing teaching message, check students status and so on.This platform design also take into account of the generality and extensibility of thesystem, new network courses can be easily added. |
