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I attended a program that had a program that was built around Team Based Learning (TBL) and projects. The program was very well designed around ensuring that you kept up with the course, and put the topics into practice in realistic situations (projects) as both an individual and then as a team.

This is incredibly effective because it reinforces your individual learning with the knowledge of your peers and provides a feedback loop to the professor who would tailor lessons based on what the class was having difficulties with.

TBL is not an easy program to run though, and requires a lot more forethought and time from the professor that is running it for it to be effective. There are some courses where it is a huge improvement over traditional teaching methods and some where I would argue it isn't.