Modern Means of Graphic Disciplines Teaching for Extramural Students

Abstract

When studying ''Engineering and Computer Graphics'' discipline, extramural students are faced with a number of difficulties. Age groups of these students differ from full-time students from behind a greater number of students related to more age categories. Also, unlike full-time students, the level of extramural students’ primary education is higher, but it has been acquired for a long time, and knowledge, in the vast majority of cases, leaves much to be desired. In addition to the described differences it is possible to report a lesser amount of free time, which an extramural student can use for his independent work because of his primary employment’s strained activity timetable. An important moment that plays a key role in discipline understanding is the complexity of "Engineering and Computer Graphics" subject itself, which requires drawing skills (in the school some students did not even have such a discipline) and the ability for spatial thinking. In the presented paper have been considered features on age groups, primary education and drawing skill level for two streams of extramural students learning on the "Railway Operations" specialty in the Russian University of Transport (MIIT). In view of students’ contingent peculiarities the use of modern teaching tools in the process of studying "Engineering and Computer Graphics" discipline has been suggested as a method for enhancement of effectiveness for understanding of educational material. As an illustration of obtained theoretical concepts has been presented a plan for carrying out a laboratory work on "Engineering and Computer Graphics" discipline using modern teaching techniques. In the process of performing the laboratory work, modern teaching tools are used, and after its completion the trainees receive a useful solid piece (a stand for a smartphone) made on a 3D printer, obtained with the help of a three-dimensional model prepared by students, that increases the efficiency of received material’s understanding.