Learner characteristics will determine the way they respond to both formal and informal learning environments. This paper explored learners' characteristics in distance learning, analyzed what should be improved in existing characteristics models, and then proposed a characteristics model of distance learners. According to this model, the characteristics of distance learners are divided into four features: demographic feature, environment feature, psychological feature and strategy feature. The research carried out with analysis on distance learners in China. The purpose of the research was to...
