The Mari Regional Centre of New Information Technologies

founded in 1991 on the basis
of the Mari State Technical University


3, Lenin square, 424024, Yoshkar-0la,
Mari El Republic, Russia

Telephone: 7 (8362) 55 43 44
Fax: 7 (8362) 11 08 72
E-mail: root@mpicnit.mari.su


The Head of the Centre of New Information Technologies - Nicolai K. Bobkov
Vice-rector of Research and Informatization of the Mari State Technical University.
Adviser of the President of the Mari El Republic on matters regarding science and education,
the Chairman Deputy of the Board of Rectors of Yoshkar-Ola.
The Author of 50 scientific and methodological works.
Biographical data are given in: Who's Who in the World, 14th
Ed. - Marquis Who's Who, New Providence, 1996.
E-Mail: bobkov@mpicnit.mari.su

Head Deputy of the Centre on scientific activities - Michael N. Morozov
Head of the Laboratory of MultiMedia Systems,
Docent of the Department of Informatics and System Programming.
The Author of more than 30 scientific and methodological works.
E-mail: morozov@mpicnit.mari.su

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The principal directions of the Centre activities

  1. Facilitating to the development of information technologies utilization and application in the Mari State Technical University and educational and cultural institutions of the Mari El Republic.
  2. Developing MultiMedia-technologies and products

The main results of the Centre activities

1. Facilitating to the development of information technologies utilization and application in the Mari State Technical University and educational and cultural institutions of the Mari El Republic.

Owing to the active work of the teaching staff and support and assistance of the Latest Information Technologies Centre in recent years the Mari State Technical University has achieved the following developments in informatization.

The software-technical complex of MultiMedia means has been formed, developed and applied in the teaching process. All the developments made in 1993-1996 were displayed at the exhibitions "MultiMedia in Education" held by the State Committee of Higher Education of Russia, reported at the Third International conference "East-West: Computers in Education ED-EW 94" ( Moscow 1994), at the International conference (Graatz, Austria, 1995), were awarded with the prize of the International association on the latest applications of the computers in education (AACE - Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education). The aforesaid complex is used while studying courses on forest engineering, programming, mechanics, foreign languages. A higher level of the works in this direction is acknowledged, for example, by the fact that in 1995 the University became one of the 11 participants of the Russian pilot project "Learning foreign languages in non-language higher schools".

The Centre offers the services of telecommunications to the teachers and students of the University who have not available such opportunities at their places of work. For example, owing to the above, the departments of the University are considered to succeed in the joint long distance control (remote distance) educational project of the economical students of the Mari State Technical University and the Coleraine University (Northern Ireland), the joint project with the Moscow Energetic Institute, remote distance methods of training higher-qualified personnel in the field of radio-engineering (teaching students, preparing for the post-graduate course, improving and raising qualification and retraining teaching staff, remote post-graduate course, etc.

The Centre fulfils the functions of the telecommunication unit of the Internet system for subdivisions and departments of the Technical University. At present an access to the information resources of the Internet has become possible through 70 computers in 15 subdivisions of the University.

Through using methodological and organizational potential of the Information Technologies Centre during recent 2-3 years we have managed to considerably broaden and improve publication and editorial opportunities of the software-technical complex of the University Editorship. It is thanks to the above, that the publication of the teaching aids and education instructions literature has increased twice as much. Computerization of the Scientific-technical library of the University is under way.

In collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Upbringing of the Mari El Republic The Centre of New Information Technologies supervises informatization of education in the schools of Yoshkar-Ola and on the whole territory of the Mari El Republic. Beginning with 1992 in the Centre annual scientific and practical conferences on informatics are held where up to 400-500 school-students and school teachers participate.

With methodological support and assistance of the Centre a number of schools of Yoshkar-Ola are working in global computingnet works, MultiMedia complexes being established in the two schools.

At present with the assistance and support of the Government of the Mari El Republic the Centre in collaboration with the Joint Stock Company "Martelkom" is creating centers dealing with the work in the Internet in the seven main libraries of Yoshkar-Ola.

One could refer to the following works devoted to the activities of the Centre in the technical university:
- N.K.Bobkov, M.N.Morozov. MultiMedia Technologies in the Mari State Technical University. - In: The Problems of Informatization of higher school (Methainformation - coordination - integration), n. 1. - M., 1996
- N.K.Bobkov, G.S.Otchepkov. Informatization of education in the Mari State Technical University. - In: Digital processing of multidimensional signals. - Yoshkar-Ola, 1996.
- M.N.Morozov, I.V.Ter-Avakian. Application of MultiMedia technologies in the foreign languages teaching. - In: Vavilovskije readings. - Yoshkar-Ola, 1996.

2. Development of MultiMedia-technologies and products

To carry out works regarding the creation of MultiMedia tech- nologies and products the Centre established a Laboratory of Mul- tiMedia Systems in 1993. One could refer to the following works devoted to the activities of the Centre in this direction:
- M.N.Morozov. Multimedia learning environment in the lecture room. - New media and Telematic Technologies for Eastern European Countries, Twente University Press, Enschede, 1977.
- M.N.Morozov. Multimedia lecture room: a new tool for education - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1077, Multimedia, Hypermedia, and Virtual Reality, 1996.
- CD-ROM "Mechanics of the materials" - a new tool in education/ M.N.Morozov, S.H.Sokolov, S.P. Ivanov, A.N. Purtov, V.N.Serdjukov. - In: Vavilovskije readings. - Yoshkar-Ola, 1996.


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The Mari Regional Centre of New Information Technologies is looking forward to cooperation and is expecting assistance in respect of the following programmes:

Financial and technical support and assistance of the non-commercial project of the development of opportunities regarding the access of the Mari El Republic educational and cultural institutions to the Internet systems.

Collecting and making up the fund of teaching and educational CD-ROM for the Mari State Technical University and schools of Yoshkar-Ola.

Exchanging and handing over scientific and educational literature on informatics, radiotechnique, foreign languages, economy for the free use of the Scientific-technical library of the Technical University.

On the basis of the Editorship of the Technical University creating operating exposition of the printing equipment with small and middle capacity.

On the basis of the radio-engineering faculty of the Technical University and Exposition Centre of the Mari El Republic creating authorized centers presenting interests of the firms-producers of the software and hardware means of informatics.

Promoting and spreading CD-ROM "Mechanics of Materials" created by the specialists of the Centre and the departments of the Technical University.

Joint exchanging students, post-graduates and teachers programmes in the field of informatics, radiotechnique, foreign languages, economy.

Other programmes being of mutual interest for foreign partners, Centre of New Information Technologies Mari State Technical University, schools of the Mari El Republic, Government of the Mari El Republic.