IT TECHNOLOGIES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION, APPLICATION FEATURES IN RUSSIA

Abstract

New technologies in engineering education, are becoming more active every year. Under the term – new technologies we are understood mainly various kinds of on-line courses, electronic educational resources and other types of information resources in the educational process. The application of all of the above technologies allows us to improve the process of obtaining new knowledge by students and increase their professional relevance in the labor market. The paper considers the features of the use of information technology for engineering education in Russia. The review is conducted on the analysis of the main factors affecting the use of information technology in engineering education. These factors include the personality characteristics of students of the generation z, the level of computer literacy of the teaching staff and the structure of the educational process in engineering education. The factors considered are comprehensively analyzed and on their basis the ways of interaction between teachers and students are proposed. An example of the use of Google Classroom is considered, as a variant of the system of interaction between teachers and students.