It's indeed the best way to learn, but schools are charged with issuing grades to students and there are just too many problems with take-home projects (i.e. pa

It's indeed the best way to learn, but schools are charged with issuing grades to students and there are just too many problems with take-home projects (i.e. paying someone else to do it, etc.), and with group collaboration on such projects (one person doing 80% of the work, etc.), that it generally doesn't ever happen except in a few small-sized high-level undergrad or perhaps graduate courses, where the students are more motivated about learning the material then they are about gettting a good grade, or just passing the class. Hands-on lab courses are something of an exception, as you simply have to do the project yourself in class, but these tend to be long classes (three hour sessions etc.) and again are limited to relatively small groups of students. Building computer simulations in real-time of physics problems might be a way to do it, but the students would need to have good programming skills beforehand. Basically a physics hackathon using a standardized set of programming tools, that would be fun and educational.