According to the form of presentation of the material,educational publications can be divided into the following groups:
convection educational publications that implement the information function of education;
programmed educational publications, which, in essence, represent electronic publications in this classification;
problem educational publications, which are based on the theory of problem learning and are aimed at the development of logical thinking;
combined, or universal educational publications that contain individual elements of the listed models. [twenty]
According to the intended purpose,electronic means of educational purposes can be divided into the following groups:
for schoolchildren;
for adults, etc.
By The presence of a printed equivalent is divided into two groups of electronic means for educational purposes:
electronic analogue of a printed educational publication - an electronic educational tool that mainly reproduces the corresponding printed publication (text arrangement on pages, illustrations, links, notes, etc.);
an independent electronic educational tool - an electronic publication that has no printed analogues. [twenty]
By the nature of the main information, the following are distinguished:
text (character) electronic edition - an electronic edition containing mainly textual information presented in a form that allows character-by-character processing;
graphic electronic edition - an electronic edition containing predominantly electronic samples of objects, considered as integral graphic entities, presented in a form that allows viewing and print reproduction, but does not allow character-by-character processing;
audio electronic publication - an electronic publication containing a digital representation of audio information in a form that allows listening to it, but not intended for print reproduction;
software product - an independent, alienable work, which is a publication of the text of a program or programs in a programming language or in the form of an executable code;
multimedia electronic publication - an electronic publication in which information of various nature is present equally and interconnected to solve problems defined by the developer, and this interconnection is provided by appropriate software. [twenty]