Virtual Workshops: An Immersive Technology for Vocational Education of the Future

Virtual workshops are a promising technology for the professional education of the future. In the scientific research the vector of studying virtual workshops as a technology of virtual or immersive reality is almost completely absent. Aim. Determination of benchmarks for the development and implementation of foresight technology of virtual workshops in educational practice. Results. The essence of virtual workshops, their basic characteristics are described; the structure of virtual workshops is proposed; the limitations and problems of development, implementation of virtual workshops in the educational space are considered; formulated educational and developmental effects of this technology. The material of this article can be used to improve the process of developing virtual workshops. It is the basis for the inclusion of this technology in the system of professional training of specialists in order to ensure the implementation of a new format for mastering professional competencies.