Software engineering of interactive educational resources for university student training in urban development courses

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issues of improving the quality of training specialists in urban development with using interactive educational resources simulated work with geodetic instruments. We considered conditions for increasing the effectiveness of the university students' initial work with the equipment during software design of interactive multimedia educational resources. One is modelling of the industrial operation with the possibility of students performing correct and erroneous actions receiving feedback. Another condition is the design of interactive multimedia educational resources by lecturers of engineering courses with students' engagement. The third condition is the possibility to support different learning styles. We carried out experimental work on the example of initial work with a theodolite in the course of engineering geodesy. Results showed that the application of interactive multimedia educational resources designed with these conditions led to a more successful execution of tasks with a shorter time for performing operations. We concerned the difference in grades of educational resources interactivity based on user- centered taxonomies. Results of experimental work showed that educational resources with a higher interactivity, allowing to perform creative tasks, led to a faster acquisition of engineering skills by students and, as a result, to the optimization of interactive operations.