The process of transition from traditional learning to learning based on computer technologies have evolved over two decades. Since the advent of the great archives presented on machine-readable media, more and more often arose the idea to use this material for teaching purposes. Globally, it has become possible with the development of the Internet, which offered the opportunity to forward the necessary amount of data from one end of the world to another, to communicate with other network users online and post information on Internet sites, making them available to everyone.
Schematically, stages in the development of learning using computer technologies can be summarized as follows:
1) courses on the basis of the CD-ROM;
2) distance learning;
3) e-Learning.
Each successive stage as it includes the previous one. Courses on the basis of the CD-ROM historically, there was the first. The main advantages were:
1) an innovative idea;
2) the concentration of thematic information on a computer-readable medium;
3) thoughtful from the methodological point of view, high-quality training;
4) providing a number of interactive features;
5) ease of use;
6) accessibility.
The disadvantages include:
1) the limitations of the course;
2) large amount of time into creating it;
3) the impossibility of modification.
Distance learning, which appeared somewhat later, offered a different educational approach, which was devoid of the above disadvantages and had a number of additional…