Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
Federal Agency for Education
federal government agency
State Research Institute of Information Technologies and Telecommunications (FGU GNII ITT “Informika”)
INFORMATION SYSTEM "SINGLE WINDOW FOR ACCESS TO EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES"
Information and methodological manual for institutions
higher professional education
Moscow 2007
Chief Editor- A.N. Tikhonov, director of the Federal State Institution GNII ITT "Informika".
Responsible editors- M.B. Bulakina, A.V. Sigalov.
Editorial team: A.G. Abramov, M.V. Bulgakov, E.G. Gridina, A.D. Ivannikov, A.O. Krivosheev, V.P. Kulagin, A.V. Simonov.
This publication is part of a series of information and methodological manuals aimed at familiarizing teachers and students with the educational resources of the Internet. The manual presents the information system "Single Window for Access to Educational Resources" and the Federal Portal "Russian Education". The structure, information content and features of working with these information systems are considered. Recommendations on the search for resources and their use in the educational process are given.
The publication is addressed primarily to teachers, students, graduate students and administrative and managerial personnel of higher educational institutions, and will also be useful for applicants, parents, education professionals and all those who are interested in the application of information and communication technologies in education.
The publication was prepared within the framework of the Federal Target Program for the Development of Education for 2006-2010.
© Federal Agency for Education, 2007
© State Research Institute of Information Technologies and Telecommunications, 2007
Introduction 4
1. Information system "Single window for access to educational resources" 7
1.1. Information system structure 7
1.2. Catalog of Internet resources 9
1.3. Electronic Library 12
1.4. Federal and regional educational portals 15
1.5. Education news 16
1.6. Feedback: feedback on resources, questions, answers 17
2. Federal portal "Russian education" 18
2.1. Portal structure 18
2.2. Catalog of Internet resources 20
2.3. State educational standards of higher professional education 21
2.4. Database "Universities of Russia" 23
2.5. Administrative and regulatory documents of the Russian education system 24
2.6. Map service. Learning Card Lab 25
2.7. Events: conferences, seminars, exhibitions 27
Over the past decade, the education system of the Russian Federation has been actively developing the direction of informatization of education, associated with the development of telecommunication networks and the development of information and educational Internet resources.
The beginning of this process was the creation in the mid-90s within the framework of the state program "Universities of Russia" of the Russian scientific and educational network RUNNet (), which was originally formed as a national network of universities and large scientific institutions. Thousands of educational, scientific and cultural institutions were connected to RUNNet in the process of developing regional scientific and educational networks in the course of implementing a number of federal and regional programs, as well as initiative projects. The created infrastructure has become the telecommunications basis of a unified information educational environment and provided educational institutions with access to Russian and world scientific and educational resources.
The use of Internet technologies brings new content to the educational process and improves the quality of education only if there is educational content on the network - Internet resources useful for teachers, students, graduate students, research and teaching staff, heads of universities and their structural divisions. Therefore, along with the development of telecommunications infrastructure, in the state programs of informatization of education, much attention is paid to the analysis and systematization of scientific and educational Internet resources, the creation of effective means of navigation and search for resources, and the development of new electronic educational resources.
Purposeful and systematic development of network information and educational resources, training to work with them began in the late 90s. A significant contribution to these works was made by the activities of the Centers for New Information Technologies (CNIT), the Regional Informatization Centers (RCI), the University Internet Centers (UCI), and the Regional Centers of the Federation of Internet Education (RC FIO) created in dozens of leading Russian universities. Implemented projects for the development of Internet-oriented information resources contributed to the popularization of the use of Internet technologies both in universities and in the general education system.
An important stage in the development of the educational content of the Russian Internet was the creation of a system of federal educational portals, which included the Federal Portal "Russian Education" () and thematic portals (in areas of knowledge and areas of educational activity). These works were carried out in 2002-2004. within the framework of the Federal Target Program "Development of a Unified Educational and Information Environment" (FTP REOIS), and their result was the operation of a number of educational portals, which for the first time collected and systematized tens of thousands of educational resources for various purposes.
One of the important projects implemented under the Federal Target Program for the Development of Education for 2006-2010 (FTsPRO) is the creation and development of the information system "Single Window for Access to Educational Resources" (hereinafter, for brevity, referred to as the IS "Single Window"), available at http:// window. edu. en. These works have been carried out since 2005 and have become a further development of the direction of activity for the integration of resources associated with the system of educational portals.
The main idea and purpose of the IS "Single Window" is to provide uniform access to educational and methodological resources posted both on federal educational portals and on other portals and websites, including regional educational portals, websites of universities and their structural divisions, electronic libraries and collections, sites of scientific and educational projects, etc. The main components of the IS "Single Window" are an integral catalog of educational Internet resources, an electronic library of educational and teaching materials and a news subsystem that includes several news feeds on educational topics.
The integral catalog contains descriptions of more than 35,000 Internet resources, including websites of universities and their structural divisions, research institutes and centers, educational authorities, libraries and museums, websites of scientific and educational projects, magazines, online publications, and also separate Internet resources - electronic textbooks, educational and methodological complexes, testing systems, databases, reference books, etc. The electronic library of the IS "Single Window" contains more than 12 thousand full-text electronic versions of educational and methodological manuals, descriptions of laboratory workshops, task books, guidelines for the implementation of course and diploma projects and other educational and methodical publications. The main part of the resources presented in the catalog and the electronic library was prepared in Russian universities, and the topics of the resources cover all areas of higher professional education.
In order to familiarize educators and students with the educational resources of the Internet, within the framework of the FTsPRO, a series of information and methodological publications have been prepared, replicated and distributed to educational institutions, the task of which is to make the use of Internet technologies in the educational process and management of educational institutions more effective. This information and methodological manual has been developed to help teachers, students, graduate students and administrative and managerial personnel of higher educational institutions. The purpose of the manual is to teach how to use the information and services provided by the Single Window IS and the Russian Education portal.
The proposed manual consists of three sections. The first two sections provide a consistent description of the structure and content of the IS "Single Window" and the "Russian Education" portal, and discuss the features of working with them. The final section provides guidance on finding resources and using them in the learning process.
After reading the guide, you will learn:
how to use the catalog of Internet resources to find sites or individual educational, methodological, reference, illustrative materials on topics of interest;
how to get acquainted with the publications posted in the electronic library, express your opinion about what you have read, offer your materials for publication;
how to keep abreast of the main news of Russian education - at the federal level and in the regions;
how to find the necessary administrative and regulatory documents of the Russian education system;
how to quickly receive information about conferences, seminars, exhibitions, competitions and other events of interest to you and your university;
and much more.
The electronic version of this information and methodological manual is available on the Internet at /window/method/.
Information system "Single window of access to educational resources" ( http:// window. edu. en) was created to ensure effective navigation and search for educational and methodological and information and reference resources for all levels of general and vocational education, organize an exchange of views on the content of resources, prompt coverage of news and events in the field of education.
The information and functional structure of the system includes several components: a catalog of Internet resources, an electronic library, a news subsystem, a glossary of education terms, a feedback subsystem (forum, questions and answers), a methodological section, a section with information about the project, partners and resource providers, a subsystem statistics collection, user registration subsystem, search subsystem.
Integral catalog contains descriptions (cards with metadata) of educational Internet resources, systematized by disciplines of professional and general education subjects, types of resources, levels of education and target audience. The catalog includes descriptions of both "external" resources posted on other portals and sites, and materials located in the electronic library of the IS "Single Window".
In the electronic library there are full-text electronic versions of educational and teaching materials provided by federal and regional educational portals, higher educational institutions, their faculties and departments, educational and methodological centers, publishing houses, as well as individual teachers and authors.
News Subsystem includes several news feeds that cover the implementation of the National Project "Education", publish education news in Russia and abroad, news from educational literature publishers, announcements of conferences, exhibitions and other events in the field of education.
Glossary of education terms contains the terms most frequently used in the field of education: the terms of education as a system and as a process, terms related to the levels of education.
Feedback subsystem provides users with the opportunity to discuss a resource posted in the system (an Internet resource or a publication in an electronic library), write a review, ask a question and get an answer to it.
Methodical section was created to assist in working with the IS "Single Window". This section contains instructions for working with the system, recommendations for finding resources and their use, focused on various categories of users, as well as thematic examples of working with the system, prepared by teachers and methodologists of general education, university professors.
Statistics collection subsystem allows you to get information about the site traffic as a whole and its individual sections, collect statistics of hits to the thematic headings of the catalog, statistics of viewing cards and downloading specific resources.
Registration Subsystem allows you to register, create your own user profile and work with the system in the registered user mode, which provides a number of additional services, such as subscription to e-mail newsletters.
Catalog of educational Internet resources /window/catalog created for teachers, methodologists, schoolchildren, students, graduate students and university professors, heads of educational institutions, as well as everyone who seeks to use the Internet to obtain information on educational topics and find resources that will be useful in the educational process, educational and methodological and organizational activities . The purpose of the catalog is to provide this audience with convenient and quick access to educational information posted on the Internet based on the analysis, classification and application of a unified approach to the description of Internet resources.
The catalog contains descriptions of both Internet resources located on other portals and sites ("external" resources) and resources located in the electronic library of the IS "Single Window" ("internal" resources). The catalog includes not only descriptions of Internet resources cataloged directly by the editors of the Single Window IS and the Russian Education portal, but also descriptions of resources imported from other educational portals (based on the accepted model for preparing and exchanging metadata). That is why this catalog is called "integral".
The integral catalog provides storage of resource metadata, monitoring of resource availability; attribute-context search. As of August 2007, the catalog includes more than 35,000 descriptions of information resources.
When performing work on the creation of a system of educational portals and the integration of their resources, a single standard was developed for headings and meta-descriptions of educational resources. The document "Metadata of information educational resources for Internet catalogs" (GNII ITT "Informika", 2004) has the status of an organization standard; you can get acquainted with it in the library of the IS "Single Window" or on the portal "Russian Education".
The catalog uses the rubrication of resources in four independent areas:
by level of education (preschool, general, vocational, additional);
by target audience (applicant; researcher; manager; teacher; student)
by type of resource (educational sites, educational, educational and methodological, reference, illustrative, scientific materials, regulatory documents, etc.);
by subject area - two basic subject rubricators: for general education and for vocational education.
Further refinement of the rubrication model has a hierarchical structure. For example, in the "Educational Sites" heading, the sites of educational authorities, universities and their departments, libraries, scientific, educational and cultural projects, etc. are highlighted. .
The description (metadata) of the Internet resource presented in the user interface on the resource card includes the name of the resource, information about the author/creator/owner of the resource, annotation, keywords, the address of the resource on the Internet (URL), as well as the headings of the "four-dimensional" rubricator The to which the resource is bound.
In the "Advanced search" mode, contextual search is possible by title, author, abstract, keywords with possible filtering by material type, education level and audience. Such filtering is done by setting the appropriate checkboxes on the right side of the page (see Fig. 3).
In the list of found resources, Internet resources are marked with an icon, and electronic library resources are marked with an icon.
Search by context can be carried out without taking into account or taking into account the morphology of the Russian language (by checking/unchecking the corresponding checkbox in the search form). In the first case, only resources will be found, in the descriptions of which there is an exact match with the context, and taking into account the morphology will allow finding resources, the descriptions of which include the search words in different word forms.
Using a query language allows you to more accurately formulate a query and improve search performance. To do this, along with the words that define the desired context, the search query includes logical operators (AND, OR, NOT) and brackets to change the scope of the operators. For example, the query "physics of vibrations" without taking into account the morphology of the Russian language will only find resources whose descriptions contain an exact match to the entered phrase. The query "physics AND fluctuations", taking into account the morphology of the Russian language, will allow you to find all resources in the descriptions of which the words "physics" and "oscillations" occur in any cases. A description of the query language can be found by selecting the "Help" item in the search form.
In the "Library" section /window/library more than 12,000 full-text electronic versions of educational, educational, methodical, scientific, reference and other information materials are presented, accumulated in the system of federal educational portals, developed and published in the country's universities, transferred by the editors of educational publications and publishing houses, found in free access on the Internet and allowed for free distribution for educational purposes.
All materials are physically located on the server of the IS "Single Window", i. their availability and integrity, unlike external Internet resources, is ensured by the functioning of this system.
When filling the electronic library with information, the main attention was paid to educational and methodological materials prepared in Russian higher educational institutions, which passed the examination and were published according to the decisions of the relevant councils. Dozens of leading universities of the country took part in the formation of the fund of this united electronic library. The sources of materials were electronic libraries of universities, websites of faculties, departments and personal pages of teachers, containing collections of educational and methodological aids. Original materials presented in various formats (doc, rtf, PostScript, TeX, etc.) were converted to PDF format, described and categorized based on the metadata model adopted in the Single Window IS.
The library of the IS "Single Window" includes various types of resources for higher professional education. The most widely represented educational and teaching aids, lecture courses, manuals for laboratory workshops, work programs of disciplines, guidelines for the implementation of term papers and theses, monographs published in universities and used by graduate students and senior students.
The search for publications placed in the electronic library is carried out in the integral catalog similarly to the search for Internet resources. In the search form, set the switch to the "search in the library" position. The use of four rubricators allows you to limit the search area as necessary. As a result, a list of resources marked with an icon will be obtained, and when a resource is selected, its card with metadata will be shown.
A library resource - a full-text electronic publication - is described by the following set of attributes that are displayed on the resource card:
annotation;
source (resource provider) - university/faculty/department, library, publishing house, Internet portal, etc.; this field typically includes a link to the resource provider's website.
The card also indicates all the data related to the rubrication of the resource: subject area; resource type; lecture hall; the level of education.
The card contains a text input field in which you can leave your feedback on the publication, as well as a form for "voting" - evaluating the resource on a five-point scale. Available reviews and the resource's current rating are displayed.
The full text of the publication is in most cases presented as a single file (mostly in PDF format, but there are also resources in DjVu format). The resource card in the "document" field contains an icon showing the type of file, along with the size of the file. The icon is a link, clicking on which allows you to open a file with the full text of the publication or save it on your local computer. There is also a link to a page indicating sites from which you can download PDF and DjVu document viewers for free.
Some publications are presented in the library not as a single file, but as a set of files of various formats (HTML, PDF, DjVu, JPG, GIF, etc.). In this case, there is necessarily a "start" file, which is an html document, designed, as a rule, in the form of a publication table of contents, and containing links to other files (for example, chapters or sections). The resource card contains a link to such a "starter" file. In some cases, it is also possible to download all the files of a "composite" resource in the form of an archive.
The IS "Single Window" includes a section that provides information about federal and regional educational portals with which interaction is maintained and activities are carried out to integrate resources (item "Portals" of the main menu) /window/portals.
The system of federal educational portals, which was created in 2002-2004, along with the backbone horizontal portal "Russian Education" () includes a number of thematic portals (in areas of knowledge and areas of educational activity), including: Russian general education portal () , Information support portal for the unified state exam (), educational portals "Legal Russia" (), "Economics. Sociology. Management" (), "Social-humanitarian and political science education", "Engineering education" (), "Information and communication technologies in education" (), Russian portal of open education () and others. All of these portals include resource catalogs that use a consistent, unified approach to describing and categorizing resources.
Regional educational portals solve the problems of integrating resources and comprehensive information support for education at the level of a region (subject of the Russian Federation) or a city. These portals provide information from local education authorities, including regulations and databases on educational institutions; catalogs of educational resources are maintained and educational and methodological repositories of resources are created; news is published and events taking place in the region are covered; discussions are held in forums and topical problems of the development of education are discussed.
Many regional portals are created and maintained by the leading higher educational institutions of the region (classical and technical universities).
The "Portals" section provides information on more than 100 regional educational portals and official websites of regional educational authorities.
Information published in the "News" subsystem /window/news, depending on the subject of messages, is grouped into several news feeds:
National project "Education": news of the all-Russian level, information about the progress of the project in the regions.
Events: announcements of conferences, exhibitions, competitions, educational projects, information about past events.
Publishers news: novelties of educational and methodical literature, educational initiatives of publishing houses.
Media about education: materials on the subject of education, selected as a result of monitoring socio-political and specialized printed and electronic publications.
Unified State Exam: official information, news about the course of the experiment in the regions, publications on the subject of the exam.
Education abroad: annotated publications of foreign media about interesting and significant events, projects, studies.
New Arrivals: information about new materials posted in the electronic library of the IS "Single Window".
On the first page of the IS "Single Window" there is a list of the latest news and the main news are grouped separately. When entering the subsystem (item "News" of the main menu), it is possible to get a list of news of the selected news feed sorted by date or a complete list of all news, as well as using the calendar to select publications from the archive for the period of interest. In the lists, along with news headlines, brief announcements are given; when choosing a news item of interest, you can read its full text.
Registered users can subscribe to email newsletters. To do this, when editing a user profile, you should mark the news feeds of interest.
News feeds published in the Single Window IS can be imported and placed on other sites. To do this, it is possible to receive news feeds in RSS format (an XML family format that provides a brief description of news with links to full versions), additional information about the RSS specification is available on the Russian Education portal at /files/news-xml. html.
Users of the IS "Single Window" are provided not only with free access to the hosted resources, but also with the opportunity to express their opinion about a particular resource. User reviews and discussion of resources can be found in the "Forum" section, which can be accessed by selecting the appropriate item in the main menu. To leave your feedback about the material, you should fill in the "feedback" field in the resource card. In addition, the resource card has a form for grading the resource on a five-point scale.
All user messages are pre-moderated. At the same time, only incorrect and inadequate messages are rejected, and any meaningful feedback, both positive and negative or with critical comments, is published. For some reviews, the editors place their comments.
Users can ask any questions related to both the technology of working with the system and its content. To ask a question, you should go to the "Feedback" section by selecting the appropriate item in the lower menu, and fill out the proposed form on the "Ask a question" page (subject, question text, signature - full name and e-mail). Questions and answers can be found on the "Questions and Answers" page.
You can work with the information system both in the "anonymous user" mode, and by registering and passing authorization. Currently, full access to all resources, including full-text library materials, is provided to all users, regardless of registration. However, registered users receive a number of additional services, including subscribing to e-mail newsletters and receiving an e-mail with an answer to a question asked in the "Feedback" section.
To register a new user, follow the "registration" link located in the upper right part of any page of the site and enter the required user data: login, password, display name, e-mail (real email address used to confirm registration and password recovery).
Federal Educational Portal "Russian Education" ( www. edu. en) was created in 2002 and is designed to solve the following tasks in the interests of the Russian education system:
formation and publication of normative, reference, notification, news and analytical information common to the Russian education system;
cataloging of Russian-language educational Internet resources;
providing an opportunity for all participants in the educational process to effectively search for educational Internet resources;
integration of the system of educational thematic and specialized portals through the implementation of system-wide services and databases with an open interface.
The main information sections of the portal are:
catalog of educational Internet resources with attribute and contextual search and rubrication by type, subject area, level of education and target audience;
archive of state educational standards for general, primary, secondary and higher professional education;
archive of administrative and regulatory documents Russian education systems (orders, resolutions, directives, instructions, decisions of the Collegium of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia);
databases of Russian educational institutions(schools, institutions of primary, secondary specialized and higher professional education);
database "Events" with information about conferences, seminars, exhibitions and other events in the life of the scientific and educational community;
database "Competitions" with information about Russian and foreign competitions, grants, Olympiads in the field of education;
legislation on education, science, culture - subsection of the legal Internet database "Garant";
mapping service, which includes a laboratory of educational maps (formation of contour maps and thematic cartographic manuals), a cartographic guide "Universities of the Russian Federation", an interactive atlas of Russian education;
glossary on educational topics and portal terminology;
forums, where you can discuss the implementation progress and problems of the FTsPRO and the national project "Education", current problems of general and vocational education, issues of developing the system of educational portals;
subscription news feed system, including those imported from other portals and sites.
The portal has a section dedicated to the permanent all-Russian scientific seminar "Internet portals: content and technologies". The purpose of the seminar is to develop modern approaches, develop the scientific foundations for the creation and use of Internet portals in various areas of human activity, primarily in the field of education. Abstracts and presentations of reports, full electronic versions of collections of scientific articles published on the materials of seminars are presented.
All information posted on the portal is freely available to both anonymous and registered users. Registration is required to use services that require user authorization: subscription to news; posting your information in forums; the use of a personal home page, the layout of which can be made (subject to technological limitations) in accordance with your preferences.
The most important and most popular section of the "Russian Education" portal among users is the catalog of Internet resources. At present, this catalog is integrated with the catalog of the IS "Single Window", coincides with the latter in content, but differs somewhat in the interface for searching for resources and viewing their descriptions.
Rice. 7. Advanced search example: search for educational sites, educational or reference materials in the subject heading "Professional education/Science education", in the title or description of which there are the words "molecular genetics"
When working with the catalog, you should remember that it contains links not only to sites, but also to individual resources: thematic sections of sites, databases, hypertext tutorials, electronic publications, etc. Therefore, it is very important to correctly limit the scope of the search to the types of resources of interest.
When selecting the "educational site" resource type, you can limit the search to a subset that includes sites of scientific and educational projects, universities and their departments, educational authorities, libraries, etc. For example, by selecting the "Educational site / University department" type, the subject area education / Mathematics" and by searching for the word "department" in the name, you can get a list of websites of departments of universities where the disciplines of the mathematical cycle are taught.
One of the important functions of the catalog is the exchange of descriptions (metadata) of resources with partner portals and sites. On the portal "Russian Education" you can get acquainted in detail with the adopted metadata model and resource description formats in XML. Catalog headings are presented in XML and HTML formats.
Among the regulatory documents in the field of education presented on the portal, the most important place is occupied by state educational standards (SES) for general, primary, secondary and higher professional, as well as postgraduate education (item "Standards" of the main menu).
The most extensive is the section devoted to the state educational standards of higher professional education (SES VPO), which contains:
Rice. 8. An example of the search for standards and exemplary curricula in the areas of bachelor's training, the names of which contain the substring "computer science"
When working with archives (databases) of standards and exemplary curricula, you can search by specialty (direction) code, substring in the title, year of approval. The materials presented in the databases (standards and plans) can be obtained in the form of html-documents or MS Word documents.
The subsection "Educational and methodological associations of universities" contains orders and other regulatory documents related to the development, approval and implementation of state educational standards, as well as the activities of educational and methodological associations and councils. The information retrieval system allows you to search by substring in the name of the UMO, code or name of the direction and get information about the UMO (base university, contact information, website, supervised areas and specialties).
The section "Postgraduate vocational education" contains normative documents, requirements for the main educational programs of postgraduate vocational education by branches of science (file archive), programs for candidate examinations, nomenclature (passports) of specialties of scientists.
The portal "Russian education" includes a section that contains background information about Russian educational institutions - general education schools, gymnasiums, lyceums; institutions of primary and secondary specialized vocational education; higher educational institutions; research institutes of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia; educational authorities.
The information is presented in the form of databases with context-attribute search capabilities, which include: a database of websites of schools, lyceums, colleges, gymnasiums; databases of primary vocational education institutions and secondary specialized educational institutions; database "Universities of Russia".
Databases on universities (item "Universities" of the main menu) contain information about the specialties in which training is provided, forms of education, state accreditation, the contingent of students and teachers, address, phone numbers, website, etc. You can search by city, name of the specialty , type of educational institution and other parameters. The database contains information on more than 2,600 state and non-state universities and their branches.
The section "Regulatory Documents" contains an electronic archive of regulatory and administrative documents of the federal bodies of education and science of Russia (Ministry of Education, Rosobrazovanie, Rosnauka, Rosobrnadzor, Rospatent - since 2004, the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation - from 1996 to 2004).
The section has its own attribute and contextual search system. It is possible to search by the adopting authority, type of document (letter of instruction, order, order, board decision, etc.), date of adoption, number and name of the document, as well as by context (substring) in the text of the document. For the thematic classification, the rubricator of legal information is used. As of August 2007, the archive contained over 16,000 documents.
Various geographical and thematic maps and atlases are traditionally one of the important forms of presentation of educational and methodological materials for different levels of education. For geographic, environmental and economic areas of professional education, various thematic maps are effective teaching aids that contribute to the assimilation of professional knowledge and skills, and for a number of specialties of higher professional education, such as geology, geography, environmental management and natural cadastre, regional economics and country studies, technology territorial administration, etc.), the cartographic method is considered an obligatory subject of study and development as a basic methodological tool for solving territorial problems.
The interactive cartographic service on the portal "Russian Education" (menu item "Maps") includes the following user blocks:
Learning Card Lab- generates electronic cartographic manuals and illustrative materials on the disciplines of higher education, including drawing own thematic information on the contour map and organizing on-line testing and self-testing of knowledge, obtaining reference data on the location and properties of geographical objects. The service supports interactive maps of the world and Russia and allows you to scale, select the desired region or section of the map, change the set of basic cartographic layers, apply your own icons (for various thematic groups) and labels to them, save and print the map, etc. In addition to contour maps, The laboratory presents thematic maps of the political and administrative structure, population, oil and gas industry, vegetation, time zones, etc.
Cartographic reference book "Universities of Russia"- visualizes the results of queries to the reference and information system in the field of higher professional education. The database contains information on almost 2,000 educational institutions and allows you to search by types of universities and specialties, as well as obtain statistical data on their activities.
Interactive atlas of Russian education- models educational statistics data by thematic mapping methods. The database contains more than 80 indicators related to the development of preschool, general and vocational education in Russia. Cartographic materials can be a textbook on statistics and mathematical and statistical methods of analysis.
Geographical index (map search engine)- allows you to search for and display on maps of the world or Russia the location of various objects (political and administrative territories, settlements, hydrographic objects) by their geographical name. The geographic index database contains about 6,000 objects. By pointing the cursor at an object and "clicking" it is possible to get help information about this object in a separate window.
Rice. 11. General view of the page of the cartographic service "Laboratory of training maps" with the location of the biosphere reserve plotted by the user on the map of the vegetation of Russia.
In the "Events" section you can find information about conferences, forums, seminars, trainings, summer and winter schools, exhibitions and other events in the life of the scientific and educational community of the country. The editors of the portal strive to cover not only events with the status of all-Russian and international, but also events organized in the regions of Russia by local education authorities, higher educational institutions, institutions for advanced training and retraining of personnel.
The information is stored in a database, where each event is described by the following set of attributes: name; annotation; dates (beginning/end), deadlines for submission of applications and abstracts; venue (country, region, organization); subject area (pedagogy, natural sciences, humanities, ICT, etc.); type (conference, seminar, exhibition, etc.); status (international, Russian, regional); address of the information support site of the event; an extended description that includes information about the goals and objectives, organizers, program, conditions of participation, etc. Files with additional information (an information letter, application form, program, etc.) can be attached to the event description.
When working with the database, it is possible to search by all the attributes listed above, as well as by the context in the title, annotation and description of the event. Search results are given in the form of a table containing the name, date and place of the event, the deadline for submitting applications. You can sort by the date of the event or by the closing date for applications. You can search only for upcoming events, in the archive of past events, or in the entire database.
A large volume of systematized educational resources and descriptions of Internet resources, stored in the library and catalog of the Single Window IS and the Russian Education portal, a variety of services that facilitate the work of users with resources, provide the possibility of using these systems in the educational process at all levels of education, in any educational institutions, in various forms of education, in various types of classes.
The key approaches to using the resources of the considered information systems are the same for teachers, graduate students, students and applicants: to determine when, where and how the use of Internet resources can contribute to the achievement of learning goals; analyze the quality of educational Internet resources; organize the search, comparison and analysis of information obtained from the Internet.
The limited volume of this manual does not allow to consider in detail all the possibilities of the IS "Single Window", describe in detail the various methodological methods of use in the educational process and illustrate them with practical examples. Therefore, in order to increase the efficiency of users' work with educational resources, the "Methodological assistance" section was created in the IS "Single Window" ( http:// window. edu. en/ window/ method/ ), which provides the following background and methodological information:
electronic version of this information and methodological manual;
methodological developments on the use of IS "Single Window" resources in the educational process;
instructions for working with the search engine and using the query language;
examples of searching for resources in the catalog and library of the IS "Single Window";
answers to frequently asked questions from users;
information about programs for viewing files presented in the library of manuals and recommendations for their installation;
other useful information.
In this manual, we will limit ourselves to considering only some of the significant opportunities and features of the use of the IS "Single Window".
The main task of both the teacher and the student, when accessing the IS "Single Window", is the search for the necessary information. Information can be searched in different ways: using a multi-level rubricator, using a search engine, by combining the above methods. Whatever method is chosen, it is necessary to determine the problematic search area. For example, it is recommended to start searching for materials for various types of classes in Informatics by defining the subject area in the rubricator: vocational education / education in the field of engineering and technology / computer science and information technology. More than 3000 resources will be found in this category. Further, to achieve the desired result, limit the search area and use filters by resource type, audience and education level. If the goal is to find a specific educational material for the selected subject, then you need to correlate the presented types of materials with the type of lesson and set the necessary filter in the type rubricator. The second possible option is a task in the search form of words: a textbook, control tasks, lectures, tests, tests, a journal, etc. If the goal is to find more heterogeneous or deeper information, then it is recommended to select the resource type "educational sites" and narrow the search area by filtering by subheadings of educational sites.
You can better understand the methodology of working with the resources of the IS "Single Window" and the algorithms for their search, as well as master the techniques for constructing search queries, by reading the methodological developments of teachers and lecturers in the "Methodological assistance" section.
It is necessary to take into account the peculiarities of working with the resources of two components of the system - "Library" and "Catalogue". As noted in the previous sections of the manual, all library resources are stored on the server of this system, selected and checked by the editors, which guarantees their quality and constant availability. To work with the materials of the library, the user's computer must have the appropriate software for viewing files - Adobe Acrobat Reader, DjVu Plug-in, etc. Links to the necessary viewers are indicated in the resource card of the library.
The use of resources and capabilities of the IS "Single Window" and educational portals in the educational process should contribute to improving the quality of education. Electronic educational resources, including Internet resources, together with traditional textbooks, play an ever-increasing role in learning, and the level of education depends on the quality of these resources. The main feature of the IS "Single Window" library resources is that they are prepared at departments, in educational laboratories and scientific centers of educational institutions, and most of them have been successfully used in the educational process of the university for a long time. For practical application in the educational process in vocational education, the library of the "Single Window" presents the following types of materials:
Textbooks and teaching aids issued by central or university publications that have a stamp or recommendation of the UMO on the admissibility of use in the educational process;
Educational and methodological materials for conducting practical classes and laboratory workshops;
Teaching and methodological kits, including course programs, lesson plans, sets of control materials, lists of recommended literature. These materials are especially useful when setting up new courses and for young teachers, because provide an opportunity to remotely get acquainted with the experience of other departments and universities.
Monographs written by university professors and used in the educational process, for example, in special courses;
Selected articles and reviews on the main areas of vocational education or related to the methodology of teaching specific disciplines.
The "Catalog" section contains links to Internet resources. The editors of the One Window made a selection of resources and sought to use sustainable websites of educational institutions, scientific organizations, libraries, publishing houses, educational and cultural projects, etc. as sources. However, it is still possible that the found directory resource is not available or does not match the description. The use of search services in the catalog of Internet resources allows you to find not only links to individual resources, but also to thematic sites of specialized departments, scientific and educational communities and university publications. Such thematic sites have collected a large amount of materials on the selected subject area: work programs, lesson plans, lists of references, test tasks, methodological developments, conference materials and useful links.
For prompt communication with the editors of the IS "Single Window", feedback was organized for users. Using this service, you can write to the editorial office about all the problems associated with the operation of the information system, broken links, unopenable files and incorrect descriptions, express your comments and suggestions, and also ask the editor-in-chief a question.
Users of the IS "Single Window" can offer their educational and methodological materials for publication in the library or place in the catalog a link to an Internet resource that, in their opinion, is of interest to the field of education.
The most dynamic section of the system is the "news feeds", which publish daily the latest information from the world of education. Using the news subscription service, the user will be able to receive daily information about the latest news and events to his mailbox.
One of the main tasks of the IS "Single Window" is to integrate the resources of universities and universities, which are very interesting and useful, but often difficult to find and accessible to teachers and students from other educational institutions. Thus, the IS "Single Window" solves the problem not only of the preservation of the educational and methodological potential of Russian universities, but also allows to generalize the accumulated pedagogical experience. The development of the IS "Single Window" in terms of the use of opportunities implies not only the consumption of information by visitors to this system, but also a very important information interaction with universities and universities, such as:
replenishment of the library with educational publications prepared by universities, departments, laboratories, scientific communities, individual teachers and authors;
providing information about scientific and educational events (conferences, exhibitions, round tables, etc.) in all regions of Russia.
The use of ICT and new generation resources in vocational education will improve the visibility, quality and accessibility of education. Educational Internet resources of the system of federal educational portals and IS "Single Window" can and should be used by teachers as informational and methodological support for the educational process.
IS "Single Window" is a developing system, and all ideas, suggestions and comments aimed at making it even more efficient and useful for teachers and students will be of invaluable help to the editorial work.
Federal portal "Single window for access to educational resources"
The purpose of creating the information system Single Window for Access to Educational Resources (IS "Single Window") is to provide free access to the integral catalog of educational Internet resources and to the electronic library of teaching materials for general and vocational education.
The information system "Single Window for Access to Educational Resources" was created by order of the Federal Agency for Education in 2005-2008. and is the result of work performed under state contracts No. 985 dated 10.27.2005, No. P82 dated 07.17.2006, No. P252 dated 06.20.2007, No. P433 dated 07.25.2008 and No. P1847 dated 10.21.2009 G.
The lead developer of the project is the Federal State Autonomous Institution State Research Institute of Information Technologies and Telecommunications (FSAU GNII ITT "Informika").
IS "Single Window" combines electronic resources of free access for all levels of education in Russia into a single information space.
The electronic library is the largest repository of full-text versions of educational, teaching and methodological and scientific materials with open access in the Russian segment of the Internet. The library contains more than 30,000 materials, the sources of which are more than three hundred Russian universities and other educational and scientific institutions. The library is based on electronic versions of educational and methodological materials prepared in universities, reviewed and recommended for use by faculty councils, educational and methodological commissions and other university structures that control educational and methodological activities.
The integral catalog of educational Internet resources contains metadata of external resources presented in a standardized form, and also contains descriptions of full-text publications of the electronic library. The total volume of the catalog exceeds 56 thousand meta descriptions (of which about 25 thousand are external resources). Advanced search in the "Catalogue" is carried out by title, author, abstract, keywords with possible filtering by subject, subject, type of material, level of education and audience.
The "Favorites" section contains selections of the most informative and useful, in the opinion of the editors, Internet resources for general and vocational education.
The "University Libraries" section contains collections of websites of university libraries, electronic catalogs of university libraries and full-text electronic libraries of universities.
The IS “Single Window” news system provides for several news feeds on educational topics.
The purpose of creating an information system "Single window of access to educational resources" (IS "Single window") is to provide free access to the integral catalog of educational Internet resources and to the electronic library of educational and methodological materials for general and vocational education.
The information system "Single Window for Access to Educational Resources" was created by order of the Federal Agency for Education in 2005-2008. and is the result of work performed under state contracts No. 985 dated 10.27.2005, No. P82 dated 07.17.2006, No. P252 dated 06.20.2007, No. P433 dated 07.25.2008 and No. P1847 dated 10.21.2009 G.
The lead developer of the project is the Federal State Autonomous Institution "State Research Institute of Information Technologies and Telecommunications" (FGAU GNII ITT "INFORMIKA").
IS "Single Window" unites electronic resources of free access for all levels of education in Russia into a single information space.
The electronic library is the largest repository of full-text versions of educational, teaching and methodological and scientific materials with open access in the Russian segment of the Internet. The library contains more than 30,000 materials, the sources of which are more than three hundred Russian universities and other educational and scientific institutions. The library is based on electronic versions of educational and methodological materials prepared in universities, reviewed and recommended for use by faculty councils, educational and methodological commissions and other university structures that control educational and methodological activities.
The integral catalog of educational Internet resources contains metadata of external resources presented in a standardized form, and also contains descriptions of full-text publications of the electronic library. The total volume of the catalog exceeds 56,000 meta descriptions (of which about 25,000 are external resources). Advanced search in the "Catalogue" is carried out by title, author, abstract, keywords with possible filtering by subject, subject, type of material, level of education and audience.
The "Favorites" section contains selections of the most informative and useful, in the opinion of the editors, Internet resources for general and vocational education.
The "University Libraries" section contains selections of websites of university libraries, electronic catalogs of university libraries and full-text electronic libraries of universities.
The IS "Single Window" news system provides for several news feeds on educational topics.
The editors of the portal reserves the right not to place the provided materials without explanation.
The main information sections of the portal www.edu.ru are:
a catalog of educational Internet resources with attribute and contextual search and rubrication by type, subject area, level of education and target audience;
archive of state educational standards for general, primary, secondary and higher professional education;
an archive of administrative and regulatory documents of the Russian education system (orders, resolutions, directives, instructions, decisions of the Collegium of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia);
databases of Russian educational institutions (schools, institutions of primary, secondary specialized and higher professional education);
the Applicant section, which contains information on the procedure for admission to institutions of higher and secondary vocational education, information about universities and colleges, online tests for the Unified State Examination and the GIA;
the section From postgraduate student to professor, which presents the main aspects of the system of training scientific, pedagogical and scientific personnel in Russia;
section Events with information about conferences, seminars, exhibitions and other events in the life of the scientific and educational community;
section Competitions with information about Russian and foreign competitions, grants, competitions in the field of education;
legislation on education, science, culture - a subsection of the legal Internet database "Garant";
a cartographic service, including a laboratory of educational maps (formation of contour maps and thematic cartographic manuals), a cartographic guide "Universities of the Russian Federation", an interactive atlas of Russian education.
The portal provides forums where you can discuss the implementation progress and problems of the FTsPRO and the national project "Education", current problems of general and vocational education, issues of developing the system of educational portals, as well as a system of news feeds with a subscription, including those imported from other portals and sites.
All information posted on the portal is freely available to both anonymous and registered users. Registration is required to use services that require user authorization:
news subscription;
posting your information in forums;
the use of a personal home page, the layout of which can be made (taking into account technological restrictions) in accordance with your preferences.
In 2005, a new project was launched - the Single Window for Access to Educational Resources portal (http://window.edu.ru/).
At the first stage, the main task of the project was to integrate the resources of the federal educational portals by creating a catalog of resources and its own electronic library that combines full-text educational and educational publications available on the portals. At the second stage, the replenishment of the catalog of Internet resources and the electronic library was carried out by collecting information and materials from regional educational portals, portals of universities, websites of various educational and research institutions, websites of scientific and educational projects, etc.
Thus, the portal confirmed its name, becoming a “window of access” to the educational resources of the entire Runet, solving the problems of effective navigation and search for educational, methodological and information and reference resources for all levels of general and vocational education, organizing an exchange of views on the content of resources, and operational coverage news and events in the field of education.
The portal "Single window for access to educational resources" includes the following components:
catalog of Internet resources;
electronic library;
news subsystem;
feedback subsystem (forum, questions and answers);
methodical section;
a section with information about the project, partners and resource providers;
statistics collection subsystem;
user registration subsystem;
search subsystem.
At present, the portal is one of the most famous and popular educational Runet projects with a very high attendance (more than 80 thousand visitors and more than 200 thousand views per day on school days). The information content of the portal is indexed in detail by the leading Internet search engines (Google - more than 700 thousand, Yandex - more than 350 thousand, Rambler - more than 80 thousand pages).
RUSSIAN EDUCATIONAL PORTAL
The Russian educational portal (www.school.edu.ru) was created in 2002 and during its existence has been successfully developing both in terms of the services provided and in terms of information content.
The main components of the portal are:
Catalog of Internet resources containing annotated descriptions of educational Internet resources for preschool and general (secondary) education, additional education for children, advanced training of teachers and methodologists.
News section, including news of the educational life in Russia and the world, announcements of events and activities, publications from the media. There is an archive of news publications from the beginning of the portal.
Section Documents of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, in which official materials related to the field of general education are published.
Section Education in the regions, which contains information about the educational authorities, educational institutions, geography, culture and history of the region, links to educational Internet resources of the region.
Forums and consultations are interactive services designed to create a communication environment for all participants in the educational process. Portal forums are virtual discussion clubs, and also serve to post announcements about upcoming events. Consultations are required to obtain additional information from experts in the field of education.
Thematic collections are the portal's own resources, focused on meeting the educational needs of users and intended for use in practical pedagogical work. The collections include full texts of literary works and historical documents, illustrative material on history, painting, architecture, audio and video materials, as well as collections of dictations in the Russian language, experiments in physics and chemistry, comments on legislation in education. A full-text search is carried out taking into account morphology (word forms of the Russian language).
The following collections are currently represented on the portal:
Natural science experiments (http://experiment.edu.ru).
Historical documents (http://historydoc.edu.ru).
Russian and foreign literature for school (http://litera.edu.ru).
World Artistic Culture (http://artclassic.edu.ru).
Music collection (http://music.edu.ru).
Law in the field of education (http://zakon.edu.ru).
History of education (http://museum.edu.ru).
Dictations - Russian language (http://language.edu.ru).
On the operation of the information system "Single Window for Access to Educational Resources" A.D. Ivannikov, A.V. Sigalov State Research Institute of Information Technologies and Telecommunications (FGU GNII ITT "Informika") All-Russian Scientific and Practical Seminar "Information Technologies in Education. Theory and Practice, December 15, 2010, Moscow
Dmitry Medvedev: “Digital libraries of universities should be open to everyone” “As for digital libraries, each university locks its library with a key. If I do not belong to the students or teachers of this university, then I often cannot go there. These libraries are our national treasure, and the fact that universities block access to them is wrong,” the president said at a joint meeting of the State Council of the Russian Federation and the Commission for Modernization and Technological Development of the Economy, dedicated to the development of vocational education in the Russian Federation (August 2010). of the year). President on Digital Libraries
Clause 2. "g": instructions of the President of the Russian Federation from Pr-2663 - "to submit proposals for ensuring free access for readers to the collections of libraries of state institutions of higher professional education within the framework of a single electronic Internet resource" Instruction from Pr-2663
IS "Single window of access to educational resources"
Information system "Single window of access to educational resources" The project, carried out on the instructions of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, years. The goal is to integrate open educational resources into a single information system and provide free access. Main components: -Catalog of Internet resources - more than 53 thousand meta-descriptions of resources. –Electronic library - more than 25 thousand full-text materials. Attribute-context search subsystem - Rubrication by subject area, type of resource, level of education, audience.
Catalog of Internet resources Websites of organizations of education, science and culture - State and non-state universities - Faculties, departments and other departments of universities - Education management bodies - Research organizations - Institutions of additional education - Libraries, publishing houses, museums NP, ANO…) Scientific and educational Internet projects Electronic libraries and catalogs of university libraries Electronic periodicals and mass media Separate educational resources (electronic textbooks, databases, encyclopedias, virtual workshops, DL and testing systems…) The volume of the catalog is more than 53 thousand meta-descriptions
The content of the electronic library of the "Single Window" More than 25 thousand full-text electronic versions of educational and educational resources (pdf, djvu): textbooks and teaching aids: lecture notes; laboratory workshops; problem books; methodical instructions; work programs; collections of tests; monographs; reference books; articles on pedagogy and teaching methods.
Sources of materials for the electronic library Electronic libraries of universities Websites of university departments (faculties, departments, etc.) Personal websites / pages of teachers Websites of thematic scientific and educational projects Websites of the distance learning system (their open parts)
Open electronic libraries of universities Content - electronic versions of materials published in universities (pdf, doc, odt, rtf, txt, djvu, html, TeX, PostScript): course and diploma design Educational and methodological complexes of disciplines Monographs Collections of articles and reports Types of digital libraries: Databases with the ability to attribute-contextual search for resources by their descriptions. "Static" lists with links to files with full texts. The number of large open libraries is several dozen. The number of closed libraries (with access from the university network or through an issued account) is significantly higher.
Examples of open electronic libraries Gorno-Altai State University (- more than 180 Ivanovo State University of Chemical Technology (- more than 300) Irkutsk State University (- more than 500 Kamchatka State Technical University (- more than 200) G.I. Nevelskoy Maritime State University (- more 200 St. Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (- more than 500 Tambov State Technical University (- more than 1700 Ulyanovsk State Technical University (- more than 400) Southern Federal University (- more than 1100.
Materials on the websites of faculties, departments, personal pages of teachers Static pages with a selection of links to resources (pdf, doc, zip files, etc.). Different forms of presentation even within the same page. Resource descriptions are often missing. Not only electronic versions of publications, but also separate unpublished materials - presentations for lectures, course programs, assignments, questions for tests and exams, etc.
Attendance statistics of the "Single Window" of thousands of visitors, thousands of views per day. More than 500 thousand downloaded full-text documents per month
26 Information and methodological manuals for working with the "Single Window" The structure, information content and features of working with information systems are considered. Recommendations on the search for resources and their use in the educational process are given. The publications were prepared within the framework of the Federal Target Program for the Development of Education for years. Information and methodological manuals: for general education institutions, circulation 60 thousand copies. for institutions of higher professional education, circulation 5 thousand copies.
Contact address of the editorial office of the "Single Window"
