The organization of independent education in the higher education system, determining the motivations that encourage students to work independently, and forming their independent learning skills is an urgent pedagogical problem. It was noted that in the current environment, where the range of information and knowledge is rapidly expanding, all information cannot be fully delivered to students only during classes. Due to the nature of assignments, there are more types of independent work and they have different educational goals: preliminary study of the material; listening to lectures, completing notes; work with recommended sources of information. These issues are also analyzed in this article