Connecting traditional and contemporary approaches in higher education

The goals of education in the 21st century are drastically different from the educational goals set in the last century. Instead of focusing on the new challenges that society demands and complete transformations of education, we are trying to adapt an outdated education system by shifting problems from one area to another. The rational solution is to educate students to know how to learn in a constantly changing society. To transform the education model, it is necessary to adopt a student-centered curriculum that makes students skilled in collaborating, finding, analyzing, organizing, evaluating, and adopting new information according to their own needs and academic and cultural background. Instead of forcing them to cope with the information explosion, a student-centered curriculum focuses on personalized content oriented to the needs of individuals.