Virtual Reality as a Toolkit in the Professional Training of Students

Modernization of the educational system is closely related to the virtual reality, which in this context act as a necessary tool for digital transformation and educational content. The aim of the study is to discover the potential of virtual reality as a tool for digital transformation of education and to assess its application in teaching practice. The following scientific approaches and methods were used in the work: discourse approach, which determines the consideration of the problem within the boundaries of discourses by methods of approach: analysis, synthesis, matching, comparison, analogy; information approach, which operates with the processes of perception, processing of information flows by selective selection; systemic approach, which gives the rationale for the relationship of theories in educational research by system and structural and functional methods. The study reveals the potential of virtual reality as a tool for digital transformation of education in the professional training of students. Based on the analysis of the questionnaire data of teachers and students, the high effectiveness of the virtual reality potential is identified based on the experience of its methodological implementation, and the satisfaction with this process is observed among the majority of students and teachers. Identification and purposeful implementation of virtual reality potential as a tool for digital transformation of education in the practice of professional training of students in Bachelor's, Specialist's and Master's degree programs at Bunin Yelets State University allowed to optimize the process of training specialists based on qualitatively new conclusions, transforming traditional didactic techniques under the influence of new conditions of digitalization of education, which can increase the involvement of students in the process of mastering the discipline and help the teacher when working in this format. #COMESYSO1120.