VISUALIZATION OF TEACHING MATERIALS THROUGH MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES FOR HIGHER-SCHOOL STUDENTS
The article pays the main attention to the modern IT permitting to visualize teaching materials to higher-school students. These technologies make the educational process more comfortable both from space and time points of view. As an example, the author considers the course structure «Academic English with Critical Thinking Elements» being taught in National Research University of Electronic Technology, Moscow, Russia. This course includes an electronic version with a number of IT-applications and an access to its tasks through a mobile device by QR-codes. According to the author, the bright example of visualization is applying gamification to the teaching and learning process. It gives the spirit of competition and an opportunity of regular assessment of an individual and group progress while studying the teaching materials offered by the proper course. The article concludes that using IT in education allows not only to visualize teaching materials, but make the process of learning a foreign language more attractive and simplify the communication between a teacher and a student.