Related Question - Do students still use study groups, where they physically get together in the same place, split up material and then share, quiz and mentor?

Even in the 90's and 00's I saw a decline in technical areas of study, but there was a time when this was the standard (and arguably only) way to get through your program (think Law or Business school in the 70's - 80's). There was just too much material to distill down for a single person. I wonder if this form of knowledge acquisition is largely dead...