The Application of Distance Education based on QR Code

Abstract

In this paper, a novel application in distance education based on QR code is investigated. In the proposed application, each student would login in distance education platform by the unique QR code which is generated by the platform. The generated QR code would be updated each time when finishing the courses and the new one will assign to each student to replace the old one. The QR code records the information of each student, for example, name, student ID, course grade, learning progress, links to web course and so on. When scanning the QR code of each student, the education platform would get the key information of different students so that it can assign different learning courses according to grade and learning progress of each student. In this way, each student would only provide the generated QR code, which does not need to remember the account, password, learning progress and so on, the distance education platform will assign different learning courses according the information of QR code automatically. It can be applied in both the PC and mobile platform and can improve the flexibility and efficiency of distance education greatly.