Analysis of the visual aid effectiveness in engineering education

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the effectiveness of the use of modern electronic visual aids (Trello virtual whiteboard, Core platform, Mind Maps, interactive books) in the engineering training of future specialists. The growth of digitalization and the abundance of information in all areas of life, including education, offer teachers and students to solve most educational problems using digital technologies and visual aids. The quality of the educational information received and processed by students, as well as the insufficient development of the use of relevant electronic visual means at the present stage of the development of the educational system makes our research relevant. The empirical basis of the study was the teaching of one of the disciplines of the Master's program of engineering training of the National Research University "MEI" of the Department of Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology named after G.S. Arefieva. In the 2020/21 and 2021/22 academic years, a pedagogical experiment was conducted as part of teaching the second-year masters of the discipline "Organizational Behavior": part of the groups studied traditionally, the other part — with the use of new educational resources. During the study, visual learning aids (Mind Maps and interactive books), the peculiarities of information perception, including educational ones, were examined in detail, the domestic and foreign experience of using visual aids in teaching humanities disciplines was studied, the effectiveness of using several modern aids and services in engineering education at a technical university was tested. The article describes the features of the experiment, presents its results and analysis, and formulates recommendations for the effective use of modern visual aids for university training.