ASPECTS OF TRAINING ECOLOGY STUDENTS USING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

The paper discusses the areas of implementing information and communication technologies (ICT) in the educational process of training ecology students and the effect that they have on the fulfillment of innovative teaching functions with regard to the training of ecological professionals. The most efficacious information and communication technologies are pointed out. The distinguished general software tools included Internet resources, multimedia software packages, office software packages and educational software. The category of specialized software embraced geographic information systems (GIS) for various purposes, statistical software packages, software tools for analysis and forecasting of ecological processes, expert systems, information and reference systems. It was concluded that the combination of a large number of images, sound, graphic, video and animated materials by using educational e-resources is of a special importance for training ecology experts.