To improve the teaching quality of higher education, attention should not only be paid to the improvement of teachers’ teaching ability, but also to the improvement of students’ ability to gain knowledge. Combined with online teaching mode, the paper conducts a survey and analyzes the state of the audience students, and on this basis, carries out thinking on the innovation of teaching methods. Through the survey about learning state, it is reflected that under the online mode, students’ self-consciousness has a significant impact on the learning effect, and the improvement of students’ self-consciousness is also achieved gradually during the learning process. In the analysis of the teaching methods and models, combined with the differences in the characteristics of the audience students in the survey at each stage, the idea that teaching method should be taken according to different stages is put forward.