The paper considers the problems and conditions of the use of electronic course books at the university. The models of two different multimedia course books are presented in the paper. The peculiarities of their design and use are discussed. On the basis of the analysis of foreign and local references and own experience the author presents possibilities of the use of new information technologies in the teaching process of the university. The specificity of electronic educational tools are characterized, the essence of the approaches for electronic course books design is discovered, and peculiarities of the use of electronic course books in the conditions of the university specialists’ training are discussed.
At present in the conditions of continuous change of the level of life, globalization of social development and integration of the Republic of Kazakhstan and other CIS countries into world community new requirements to specialists’ training, first of all in the area of strengthening personality’s intellectual abilities, intensification of the processes of individual’s intellectual development have appeared.
First of all it is the use of possibilities of modern information technologies tools that allow initiating processes of the development of definite types of thinking, intensify the processes of memory development, attention, observation, leadership qualities development, capabilities of organization activity, development of creative abilities stimulation.