New informative technologies in teaching process

Ketevan Kupatadze, Ilia Razmadze

Branch of Electronic Learning Resources of University Scientific Library, Tbilisi State Medical University, Georgia

The article presents author’s multi-media teaching course on general biochemistry, created in the information centre at Tbilisi State Medical University. The article corresponds to generally practiced standards. Teaching materials are presented together with visual dynamic models of bio-chemical and physiological processes. The changes and additional information can be introduced any time due to the structure of the course. Therefore, the model contains the elements of Case Study. As for the content of the course the form of teaching materials is fully defined by a teacher. Depending on the model of teaching the teacher can present, for example, a set of certain cases (Case Study) and the student is expected to build his/her hypothesis, model or theory. Another model (Declaration Study) describes consecutive explanation of the theory and the examples serve as illustration of theoretical ideas. This time the computer gives us possibility to visually study the process going in the cell. The student can easily involve in the learning process and take advantage from the new block of information.

Keywords:  multimedia technology, studying computer programs, general biochemistry, visual method, animation, hypertext