Special Authoring Tools
More popular use of special authoring tools with which teachers can develop their own courses in their subjects. Appeal to authoring tools allows you to solve another problem – support for unique content and principles of teaching courses in some universities. Creating and publishing courses are ready for higher education has little perspectives, because each university is proud of his scientific school, the intellectual capital of the faculty and the specifics of the educational process. However, for higher education in Russia than anywhere else actually creating a variety of industry communities that can allocate physical resources to implement the standard e-learning courses in subjects from the general program, for example, courses on economics for economic universities or specialized courses specific sectoral focus. Universities usually view their e-learning courses as intellectual property and are not inclined to freely share educational resources on the Internet with the community outside their own academic and scientific audiences. There are a number of important factors that justify the investment in university e-learning: e-learning is that including the tool fixing their unique knowledge and traditions of scientific schools. Saving the best courses and other educational materials in electronic form protects your investment in university education and scientific content the necessary technical and classical education because of the problem of age, and in business education – because of the high mobility of teachers.
In addition, e-learning tools allow you to release teachers from much of the routine work through the transference of electronic processes for preparing the space for classes and intermediate means of controlling knowledge. Working with the e-learning they have more opportunities to realize their creative potential in the classroom, to improve the perception of material by media components, to support a variety of virtual communication and discussion with students and colleagues. Traditional exams, which in Russia does not allow the legislation to move online, using e-learning may be exempt from the standard questions that have already been tested during automated testing. However, in addition to sufficient funds any project of e-learning needs more in a number of important conditions that determine its success. The introduction of electronic options learning – not just the mastery of new tools, but also a serious restructuring in the minds of both teachers and students, which requires appropriate incentives and support from university leadership. Need and advanced technological infrastructure, including a sufficient number of computers in personal use of teachers to enable them to enjoy unlimited possibilities of the system to play it determines role, as well as advanced telecommunications transport system allows to combine all the jobs and departments of the university into a single network.