My colleagues and I discuss, off and on, what it would be like to introduce chavruta learning to other domains. We dream of an environment like that for chemistry, physics, etc.

I think I've seen it develop in Math circles (two folks going at it on a blackboard for hours on end), but there's something really powerful about the format which doesn't seem prevalent elsewhere.

As many social systems evolve and optimize over time, Jewish Beit Midrash learning has evolved over millenia to be an effective educational tool, and I think (/hope/suspect) there's a lot which can be extracted from it and applied to other learning contexts.