Theoretical foundations of the use of multimedia technologies in the process of teaching history

In the conditions of informatization of modern society and the introduction of new methods of communication, multimedia technologies facilitate the effective use of electronic teaching aids in the educational process.In recent decades, a number of scientists (I. Werner, M. Carmayer, L. Skibb, S. Hayfmeister, A. Chesnat, V. Volobuev, M. Afasyzhev) investigated the phenomenon of multimedia. The questions of the application of multimedia technologies in the educational process are also considered by researchers N. Anisimova, N. Voronova, Yu. Kazakov and, in particular, in the process of studying history, A. Telezhinsky, S. Telukhii and many others.But, despite the availability of certain theoretical achievements, the issue of using multimedia technologies in the educational process has not yet been sufficiently studied. Therefore, the aspect of their use in the process of studying subjects of the social and humanitarian cycle by future history teachers needs further thorough research.In the article, we determined that the combination of interactive, audiovisual and multimedia technologies contributes, for example, to the development of research skills in teaching history. They have a positive effect on improving the level of academic achievement and better learning of historical knowledge, developing skills to critically treat certain historical events and the use of acquired knowledge in life.Therefore, in the context of organizing multimedia learning in the study of history, one can speak of the emergence of a special interdisciplinary scientific field that updates and modernises the process of teaching-learning and improves its efficiency through broad access to information sources and the processing of educational tasks; provision of feedback, interactivity of interaction with information and its processing, and diversity of presentation forms with the help of hypertext, video, sound and other forms of creation of virtual reality.Consequently, as a result of the analysis of the main theoretical principles of the use of multimedia technologies in the process of teaching future teachers of history, we presented the main approaches to this issue that have emerged in modern pedagogical literature.