The modern paradigm and components for the modernization of higher education

Global trends that require the use of information and communication, digital and innovative technologies and approaches to learning require us in turn, to re-examine the current educational paradigm. This article examines the modern paradigm and define the components for the modernization of higher education. The study used a comparative analysis, methods of synthesis, generalization and systematization of various scientific approaches, and a graphical method. It considers models of higher education in foreign countries in the context of their adaptation in Russia and examines characteristic features of traditional and modern higher education. Special attention was paid to the role of higher education institutions in training specialists. These meet the current requirements of the labor market, through their independence in strategy, courses, programs, as well as the introduction of progressive forms of teaching methods and educational technologies. The authors show that digitalization is deeply embedded into the administrative and managerial environment of higher education. They identify problems and prospects for the introduction of modern e-learning tools, individual educational trajectories, and distance learning technologies in Russia. This provides the justification for updating the modern paradigm and reorienting it to the components for the modernization of higher education (managerial, methodological, knowledge, innovative, and institutional). The authors develop key foci and define strategic objectives for the development of higher education which can inform educational practice in a modern university.