November 6, 1998 (September 18) Tiger years, China's first online university school.

1998 11, China's first online universities - Hunan University of Multimedia Information Education school, distribution of more than 1,000 members in 15 of the 14 places in the province, state, city distance learning points students, the first lesson to learn is through public multimedia network. This marks the multimedia distance education in China has been officially launched.
experts believe that the implementation of the modern distance education will effectively alleviate the difficult contradictions of Chinese high school graduates go to college, to provide the conditions for continuing education, quality education resources in different places shared, is a major event in the history of China Education Development.