The department of information resources is established on the basis of the branch "Automated training
systems" further renamed into the "Computer technologies and training systems"
branch.
The Nizhny Novgorod state technical university teaching staff has
begun to use the computer training systems already since 1985. These were
the finished developments of other universities and other organizations own
independent training and checking programs.
There was established the scripts and training programs library,
accumulated some experience in the field of development and usage of training
systems in the educational process, published training aids. (Russian Page).
The initial activity of the
department included the development systems for YeS computers (AOS VUZ).
The department library had about 60 training courses in different subjects
for the relevant development system. A special place filled the training
course "Aphrodite" (developed at Kishinev state university) used subsequently
within many years to teach students the Fortran programming language.
Having installed personal computers they began to work with DVK-3
with development systems Astra and Rakurs, later on transferred to the IBM-compatible
PCs. They worked fruitfully rather a long period of time with the IBM-based
authoring system Adonis: there were developed training and checking courses
in information science, physics, radio engineering.
The 1990 list of training courses is here. (Russian Page).
The training and checking
course to acquire skills of working with Norton Commander shell developed
by the department enjoyed wide popularity. It did not become obsolete till
now.
Our training and checking programs
are used in the modern education (here), business games, simulators
and psychological tests (here).
In 1995 the NNSTU was connected
to the Internet. One may tell that from this time on began a new, very interesting
stage in the department's activity. We got the opportunity not only to see
the whole world, but also to suitably represent our university on the NSTU
WWW-server. We began to master actively the WEB-technologies, such as multimedia,
hypertext, CGI, Java and others.
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Today the
department of information resources belongs to the informatisation board.
Till April of 2003 the department was called "Department of computer technologies
and training systems".
The first version of the NSTU Web-site appeared in the fall of 1995.
Since that time the employees are engaged in the hardware and software support,
portal establishment, information collection, information content and design
of the university WWW-server pages.
You can acquaint yourselves with the server guide here. (Russian Page).
Big attention is paid to the
distance learning.(Russian Page).
In this section is founded the digital library containing the training
aids, in particular, the developments of the department in computer-aided training systems. (Russian Page).
There are represented the elaborate
developments of the computer technologies department , as well as the opportunity
to test the knowledge using the tests developed with the help of Java. (Russian Page).
Another interesting activity
trend are our multimedia software products. We succeeded in creation of several
multimedia CD-ROMs, e. g.,
"NSTU directory
" , which is the NSTU Web-site copy including video sequences,
voice and music soundtracks.
The multimedia CD-ROM
"History of Gorky railway" (Russian Page) provides the complete information about the
history of the Gorky railway thanks to the rare, interesting photos and materials,
used during creation of the CD-ROM.
But we take special pride in
the multimedia product
"Russia
at the boundary of centuries. 1896" in two languages: Russian
and English.
It is structured using the principle of the digital guide of the XVIth
All-Russia industrial and arts exhibition. The development is interesting
not only from the historical but also from the fine arts point of view: in
the CD-ROM were used the photos of the greatest Russian photographers M.
P. Dmitriev and A. O. Karelin. During the development of the system we used
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