Lidiya Sidorova

The article reveals education individualization and differentiation issues aimed at creating conditions for students’ individual abilities development, for activating their self-development, improving academic results and deepening knowledge, and expanding the learning abilities of each student. On the basis of psychological and pedagogical literature theoretical analysis, the essence of the concepts "differentiation of teaching" and "individualization of teaching" was specified. Using the example of information technologies course studying, the authors reveal the forms and means they used to implement an individual approach in teaching.

In various spheres of education multimedia computer turns into a versatile tool activities. The authors reveals basic terms and didactic characteristics of educational multimedia-resources and technologies; outlines the general methodological problems of training and the approaches to the content and methods of teaching students of educational multimedia products in the framework of special training. This emphasizes the importance of not technocratic approach to teaching and approach based on pedagogical design of multimedia product through a systematic approach; the basic stages of mastering the multimedia technologies for education are suggested.