Vocational education in the context of digital transformation: new challenges and unknown resources

The purpose of the article is to analyze the main characteristics of digitization of the education system on the background of FIR and the transition of humanity to the Digital Age to formulate new tasks arising for education in this regard, to consider new resources for its development. In the course of research, the following will be used: comparative and comparative method; system approach and methods of analysis and synthesis; historical and logical methods, comparative analysis, content analysis. Justification of the expediency of personalized learning in the transition to digital education as leading learning technologies, the need to improve teaching methods and models of digital competencies as well as the system of additional professional education as an effective tool for solving problems in the labor market and employment. The results of the analysis allow integrating international and domestic developments in terms of understanding the socio-humanitarian aspects of the digitalization process, the existing approaches to the digitalization of education.