Recently, I had the chance to come into contact with the Republic Polytechnic and was pretty intrigued by their no-exams approach to education. Basically at RP, you will be given a problem daily to solve.. and at the end of the day, you will need to present your findings (mostly from the internet) on how the problem can be resolved. I was once again reminded of this training methodology when I read about the Eric Schmidt interview…
The combination of Wikipedia, which is a remarkable achievement of humanity, just phenomenal, and search engines like Google, mean that you can literally get it all if you’re willing to be motivated. So my idea about school would be that you would sit there with however many students you have and you’d say students, I’m going to give you a set of search terms to get started with. And we’re going to see which of you learn the most. And what would happen, of course, is about a third, the ones in the back row that are asleep are going to wait for the other two-thirds. And out of the other two-thirds, some of them will do great, some will do poorly. Then you have a conversation among all of them. It’s a complete inversion of the textbook model….
With reference from: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/07/eric-schmidt-tells-charlie-rose-google-is-unlikely-to-buy-twitter-and-wants-to-turn-phones-into-tvs/