E-learning system at the University of Reading.

Abstract

At the moment life is unthinkable in any sphere of economy and society without the «e-Learning» system, which came into the education system all over the world with new information and communication technologies. E-learning prepares students for the future life, where almost all services are electronic, and professional activities simply will not be possible without the Internet, computers and network of social and professional communities. State Program of Education Development, approved by the Decree of the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, first defined the task of implementing an e-learning. By 2015 in Kazakhstan plans to cover 50% of educational institutions to e-learning, and by 2020 to bring this figure to 90% in organizations of all levels of education. In organizations of all levels of education planned to be equipped work places of teachers leading e-learning with computers of modern modification, multimedia projectors and interactive whiteboards. Thus, the investigations of e-learning system is relevant to the global level. This article discusses the electronic system of education at the University of Reading (Reading, UK), which is included in the top 25 UK universities in the top 200 in the world. Thanks to the international scholarship «Bolashak» established in 1993 on the initiative of the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, the holders (teachers) this scholarship during language training in the UK independently to carry out project on the basis of questioning of students from different countries who are studying at the University of Reading. The main objective of this study is to analyze, which includes the following tasks: identifying the elements, and the role of e-learning in the educational process of the University of Reading; create a schema of e-learning system at the University of Reading; to understand the attitude of students and staff to e-learning system at the University of Reading.