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information according to the level of the student andsecond to help the student to gain, select and organizeinformation. Each individual has a different perception;hence, learning is an individual process, formingindividual experience.The quality of teaching influences the quality oflearning and thus the teaching remains important.Qualitative education contains full time education,distance education, learner responsibility, educatorresponsibility, and administrative responsibility.Computer managed learning as an aid to formativeassessment in higher education, focuses on an advantagesprovided by computer managed learning systems thatprovide assessment and student tracking functions(Zellner 2003). Fundamental knowledge is coming to beincreasingly important in the training of graduates for arather broad field of future professional activity.Information technology has revolutionized education interms of how we organize, structure, and empowers ourdaily education practice. Since networkedcommunication came into being, it has affected the waywe teach and learn. The use of technology now has notonly increased in the classroom, but also homes,libraries, coffee shops and other places throughout ournation’s communities. E-learning and distance educationprograms have spread, while the opportunities for usingthem have increased.The productivity of the study process is determined bythe goal of the student in the study process, cooperation,the level of mastering knowledge and skills translatedinto the results of studies The levels of knowledgecharacterize the quality of knowledge with the help ofsuch characterizes as breadth and depth, systematicalcharacter, system, stability, operational characteristics(Cakula 2005).It is a pedagogical problem to make more optimal theproportion in the cognition process between the readymade knowledge and knowledge achieved by the studenthim/herself.Experience is always necessary for intellectualdevelopment, although it is not sufficient to only free thestructures involved in experience. It is important for thestudent to be active, be able to transform things and findhis/her own activity concerning the object. Essentiallyimportant is the structure and organization of the studyunit, a better succession of the tasks and experiences.There exists a feedback concerning the student’s progresson each phase, unit, or task; an idea of alternativelearning and tasks is being formed. The assessment hasformed in development. Analysis and assessment in thestructure within the framework of each learning unit ortask is important together with an offer of alternativelearning materials and access to them. In the frameworkof a course, it is advisable to keep to an optimalproportion between different teaching methods, theirassessment and organization, including lectures,seminars, research activities, and others.The inclusion of online learning technologies into thehigher education curriculum is frequently associated withthe design and development of new models of learning.Constructivist approaches started to replace instructionalmethods: the focus went away from the teacher andmoved to the individual learner.There are three ways for student to acquirepossibilities of information technology: to learncomputer courses, to make researches using informationtechnology and to use information technologies in theeveryday study process.In that case, by information technologies (IT) inlearning process we understand acquiring information,formation, adding, and exploring information, with thehelp of computer and the Internet.E-learning is a way to use information technology inthe study process regularly. We will define e-learningbased on German definition that e-learning contains allforms of electronic supported learning and teaching,which are procedural in character and aim to effect theconstruction of knowledge with reference to individualexperience, practice and knowledge of learner.Information and communicators systems, whethernetworked or not serve as specific media to implementthe learning process. This definition is based on theconstructivist-learning model. Individual content andlearner specific interaction are the media specific valuesoftware based systems could contribute to learning(Tavangarian et.al. 2004).To support the constructivist learning theory thelearning material must be customized to the individuallearner. Methods to maintain and reuse learner specificcontent have been introduced with the multidimensionallearning objects and modular lectures mark-up languagedata model.COUMPUTER COURSES FOR TOURISMSTUDENTSA successful computer course strategy can be formedprovided the student is aware of IT as somethingpersonally and socially important. The student’s attitudetowards studies and the productivity of studies incorrelation of two components cause-consequencesexpression in a union create a new quality and influencethe development of student’s personality, which is theresult of the pedagogical process.Students’ participation in the choice of the coursecontents and the themes of research influence theperception of the course and the development of thestudent’s personality. An important part of the course isconstituted of the research project and cooperation inusing IT, which facilitates a deeper understanding andability to combine the knowledge, to consolidate theskills and develop a purposeful and persistent work ofstudents as well as to create a positive attitude towardsthe study process. A shift in the teacher’s position inAnnual Proceedings of Vidzeme University College “ICTE in Regional Development”, 200614
correspondence with the course aim and content areessential for the course.After Vidzeme University College was formed atraditional computer course was offered, this course wasaimed at acquiring knowledge, skills and habits to usedefinite computer programs for the needs of differenttasks and for document writing. Experience in work withstudent demonstrated their inability to use thepossibilities of computer programs and Internet resourcesin a creative way. Students were good at writingdocuments following an example, could solve typicaltasks, but had problems in using these skills forimprovement of other course coverage and solving ofreal life problems. Difficulties in working out yearprojects showed themselves. Problem solving requiresthe usage of knowledge and principles in a new situationthus keeping a control over and facilitating the realperception of problems by students. Informationtechnologies concentrate on the problem solvingmechanism.The new course of computers was created in nontraditionalway basing on three components: problemsolving, cooperation, and IT programs. The pedagogicalexperiment was carried out in Vidzeme UniversityCollege with first year students.RESEARCH USING IT AS A METHOD OFDEVELOPING CREATIVE EXPERIENCEThe research is mainly based on Piaget theory ofconstruction and Vigodsky theory of the closest zone ofreach (Piaget 1976, Vygotskij 1978). A special attentionis paid to IT as a means of cooperative learning, thepossibilities of IT in supporting the research activities.Ways of using computers for the needs of students’research activities have been worked out (see Figure 1).StudentHypothesisProblemAimIdeaRecommendationsConceptionRecommendationsSoftware supporting the dialogKnowledge and data basisMechanism of judgmentSoftware supporting the dialogExperimentActivityReal world Modelling softwareDataData analysisInterpretation of resultsDataResultsProgramsSoftware supporting the dialogMechanism of judgmentFigure 1. Ways of using computers for the needs of students’ research activities.There are four main phases of the research: theoreticalanalysis of the research and discovering new ideas,planning of the experiment, the procedure of theexperiment, analysis and interpretation of the resultsThe problem connected with the use of informationtechnologies in the study process has been in the focusof interest of the author of the research for more than 4years. Based on the analysis of a broad theoreticalpedagogical and psychological material, on theexperience of several foreign researchers and theresults of a research connected with the use of IT aswell as the author’s own experience and results of herresearch carried out in Latvia and Denmark a newcomputer course contents and methods of teachingwith emphasis on the development of students’ creativeactivity according to the needs of the modern societywere developed (Cakula 2001).During the experimental course, the studentscompleted an independent tourism research project,which offered a solution of a definite problem. This isa very important part of the course characterizingstudents’ creative activity.For a comparative analysis of students ‘selfevaluation and external assessment questionnaireswhere students were asked to evaluate their own andtheir partners’, activities as well as the teacher’sevaluation were used. These evaluations were enteredin tables for in comparison with the assessment of eachpractical work, test, examination work, and researchwork.Annual Proceedings of Vidzeme University College “ICTE in Regional Development”, 200615
Page 1 and 2: ISBN 9984-633-03-9Annual Proceeding
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