Methodological Strategies of Using Educational Multimedia Website in Teaching Arts Courses

Lyudmila Gavrilova1,2 
(1. Donbass State Pedagogical University, Ukraine;
2. Computer Engineering Department, National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Ukraine)

Abstract: The article examines innovation of teaching aids and creation of an integral educational information environment as urgent problems of contemporary higher education. After providing the notions of “educational web-resources” and “educational website” with proper definitions, we proceed to differentiation of the sites according to their use in different spheres of education. Within that theoretical framework we address the structure and contents of the educational website “Multimedia Technologies in Music Education”, and consider the methodological approaches to the use of the site in the study of such artistic courses as History of Music Art and History of Ukrainian Music at a pedagogical university. We introduce techniques of how to use the teaching facilities of the site in the classroom, supplementing them with examples of individual tasks for students, empirically approved in the author’s teaching practice.

Key words: educational website, multimedia teaching aids, history of music, methodology of teaching music