Dali Prefecture Agricultural Distance Education Training Management System Design And Implementation

With the rapid development of information technology (IT), IT has been applied to all walks of life. It has brought forth infinite vitality and power for the development and progress of the society and also promoted the beginning of a new mode of teaching.Dali is a large agricultural prefecture in Yunnan Province. Dali Agricultural Broadcasting and Technical School was established in 1979, and has carried out different types of academic education while also providing continuing education and various trainings and education services like farmers training, agricultural machinery training, skills evaluation etc. Due to the wide range of training, the different demands for education and the unevenness in age, experience and education background among students and also due to the limited hardware and shortage of experienced teachers, the usual teaching and training become very cumbersome, quite difficult to further extend effectively.Dali Agricultural Distance Education and Training System is designed and developed to meet the current environment. The system took full advantage of streaming media technology and web to finished a remote education information management based on web .The system is free from time and space. The organization of teaching resources, the administration of teaching and training, and so on, are all conducted through the Internet.The system gives full play to the advantages of distance education, making the teaching process more vivid, increasing greatly the students'learning initiative, and meanwhile reducing students'learning hours and financial expenses.The system is intended to increase teachers'competence of information technology. It enriches their means of teaching, improves teacher's and student's awareness of the outside world, and gradually turns the traditional classroom teaching into multimedia teaching. In the system all the teaching materials can be used more widely and repeatedly. While reducing their repeated workload, teachers can improve and optimize their teaching materials, and thus the quality of their teaching is bound to be greatly improved.