Abstract: At present, higher vocational education has entered a critical period of improving quality and excellence, which puts forward higher requirements for the quality of talent training. This paper starts from the opportunities and challenges faced by the reform and development of higher vocational education, introduces the theory of deep learning, and expounds the origin, development and characteristics of deep learning in detail. On the basis of using the theory of deep learning for reference, it has brought some enlightenment to the reform and innovation of higher vocational education, such as accurately grasping the orientation of education and returning to the origin of education; Encourage students to actively participate in teaching interaction to improve teaching effectiveness; Actively carry out problem oriented and task driven project-based teaching; Improve the feedback and evaluation mechanism, and accurately improve the goal achievement.

Key words: Deep learning, Higher vocational education, Enlightenment, Personnel training, Reform, Innovation