Keyword: «self-organization»

This article discusses the basic concepts and ideas of the competency-based approach, its relationship with other educational paradigms. Represented in higher education. It is shown that this approach to education appeared not so long ago and over the past period not only has not lost its relevance, but its relevance has reached a qualitatively new level. In the educational paradigm, the goals and planned learning outcomes were formulated in the form of knowledge, abilities and skills (KAS). However, in reality, teachers and methodologists for decades have focused on the transfer of knowledge rather than its application in practice. The importance of the ability to solve a variety of problems and tasks, many of which do not have ready-made solutions, is growing. It is believed that a competency-based approach can solve this problem.