Proactive Learning- Shifting Towards a More Innovative Higher Education

Modern higher education is no longer limited to the preparation of narrow specialists for a specific field of activity, but to the development of the personality of each student, increasing his professional competence and effectiveness and above all creating proactive and motivated citizens who participate in public life. The emphasis is shifting from learning large amounts of information to learning ways of continuously acquiring new knowledge and learning skills; forming habits of independent (creative) rather than reproductive thinking.. The new educational paradigm is a strategy of education for the future, its essence being the transition from mastering the volume of information to developing critical thinking, learning to solve problems and actively working with information in an increasingly complex world This paper looks at the revised approaches to education, which is seen as a process of knowledge creation resulting from the application of research methods, rather than as a process of mere knowledge and skills transfer. The main characteristic of knowledge is its timeliness and relevance - the learner learns it not because the curriculum requires it and not because it is necessary to know it, but because this knowledge allows to solve real problems in real conditions of activity. In this way, learning becomes practically oriented and evolves into lifelong learning.