The ideological and political education’s approaches through network are of distinctive features, which are technical, interactive, diverse and convenient.It includes five fundamental types, such as information database approach, information hiding approach, subject interactive approach, virtual reality approach and the approach of combining online with offline.Their main optimal paths are improving the method of technology contents of ideological and political education through network, integrating the advantages of ideological and political education’s methods through network, and establishing and improving the scientific system’s ideological and political education’s methods through network.