New digital technologies of training in the transport education

Abstract

Abstract The article analyzes the use of new digital technologies in transport education considering the Moscow Automobile and Road Construction State Technical University (MADI) as an example. The results Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) and other electronic systems in the training of engineers using on specialty «Land transport and Technological Vehicles» are given. Positive opportunities of online courses using arise in the organization of student extracurricular activities and the implementation of a differentiated approach in training. Different content of online courses in the areas of training makes it difficult to use MOOC in the practice of general engineering education. The authors suggest using the Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment (Moodle) which is a free web application that provides to create websites for online learning. The experience of using the online resource «Information system MADI» («IS-MADI: Physics») to study Physics, created by MADI’s teachers, is also considered. This experience makes to conclude that using of the Internet resource «IS-MADI: Physics» awakes interest of students to learn Physics. In a whole students begin to understand that knowledge of Natural Science disciplines gives them powerful tool to create and to exploit modern cars and roads, they begin understand importance of Physics.