No 3 (2008)

This article reviews some results of CIS countries collaboration in using ICT in education and distance learning. Author analyses the intention and aspirations of the team of experts - creators of the project of Agreement of CIS countries in ICT using in their education systems and final text of the Agreement. Unfortunately final concluding text has not got any real mechanisms and common projects for serious development of the collaboration in this sphere and further integration of education systems of the CIS countries. Further author critically assesses some new troubled trends of regulation of the arrangement and providing of distance learning in Russia (especially non-adequate using of quality management terminology and reasoning) and makes conclusions and propositions for further development in this important area.

This article is about problem of using electronic educational resources in informational media of educational institution of higher education.

Features of ordering of the various information technologies involved in automation of organizational-administrative activity of pedagogical universities in conditions of information-educational environment formation are described in the article.

Construction of a model of knowledge quality estimation system using the stages of the system analysis is considered in the article. The author suggests the general model, structure and a model of knowledge quality estimation system.

The author investigates models of communication in distant learning environments. Role of these models in the processes of learning and teaching, and technical requirements are studied. New educational opportunities generated by distant learning technologies are demonstrated.

Use of business games as means of activization of training is offered to computer science of hard hearing students. Examples of games promoting increase in learning efficiency to computer science are given.

Opportunities of increasing efficiency in grounding future professionals in the field of welfare service and tourism using modern multimedia technologies are considered. Questions of applying design methodology are also discussed.

The conception of information applying to the meanings of mathematical symbols is discussed. The principles of information processing encoded to the binary digits are stated.

Features of training children requiring long medical treatment to computer science are discussed. Advantages of continuous training of preschool children and pupils of primary school in educational institutions of sanatorium type are described.

Problem of the concept of blended teaching and some basic models of teaching based on information technologies and some features of their applying to teaching programming are concedered in the article.