V nastoyashchee vremya nashe obshchestvo vse bolee i bolee prevrashchaetsya v informatsionnoe. Bystrymi tempami vnedryaetsya elektronnaya kommertsiya. Formiruetsya elektronnoe pravitel'stvo. Na predpriyatiyakh dlya resheniya prioritetnykh zadach ispol'zuyutsya avtomatizirovannye sistemy. V obrazovanii primenyaetsya distantsionnoe obuchenie, osnovannoe na "oblachnykh" internet tekhnologiyakh, videokonferentsiyakh i elektronnom dokumentooborote. Segodnya znachitel'no vozrastaet rol' personala, sposobnogo vypolnyat' professional'nuyu deyatel'nost' s pomoshch'yu informatsionnykh tekhnologiy. Odnako uroven' informatsionnoy podgotovki pedagogov professional'nogo obucheniya ostavlyaet zhelat' luchshego. V tselyakh opredeleniya informatsionnykh kompetentsiy dlya vypusknikov urovnevogo professional'no-pedagogicheskogo obrazovaniya priveden opyt vnedreniya informatsionnykh tekhnologiy v mashinostroenii, energetike, torgovle i obrazovanii na primerakh deyatel'nosti vuzov i predpriyatiy Chelyabinska. Monografiya adresovana nauchnym rabotnikam, aspirantam, prepodavatelyam, studentam vuzov i kolledzhey i drugim kategoriyam rabotnikov sistemy professional'no-pedagogicheskogo obrazovaniya, uchastvuyushchikh vo vnedrenii informatsionnykh tekhnologiy.