Station Rotation

How many channels do you have preset on your car radio? Most people (after all, I have extensive data to support this claim from years of gathering statistics), listen to several stations for different purposes. One may listen to WINS or WCBS for news, WABC for talk radio, and a host of FM or SiriusXM channels for music. While we may listen to traffic on the ones or eights, sports each half hour, and business report on one station, we rotate to various other shows at other times of the day. In short, we do a station rotation to learn and listen what we want when we need to.
When people hear the term station rotation as it relates to education, they often flip out (no connection to the flipped classroom). They believe that this revolutionary model will completely shift the way education has always been into something it should never be; from the way it always worked to the way it cannot succeed. Yet, however fast this model continues to envelope Secular Studies throughout the country, Judaic Studies does not seem to always share the same limelight. There is a certain tradition that apparently protects it from being the center of attention. Nonetheless, after a bit of examination, we may uncover some rather fascinating history that Judaic Studies and station rotation share.
For those who have had the opportunity of learning in a post-high school yeshiva setting, you may remember learning much of the day with a one chavrusa or another, studying in a chabura, sitting with the shoel u'meishiv, and only hearing a shiur on occasion (for some, this even occurred in high school). Depending upon the purpose or goal of the moment or task, you would rotate as needed to any of the above configurations. This, of course, only took place once you were taught to learn more independently. Only at such point did you have the capacity of utilizing inquiry (IBL?) to fuel your investigations.
Assessments? Well, there was the rebbi questioning students regularly as he moved about the room (formative assessment?), there was interaction, peer-questioning and debate with your chavrusa and others (peer assessment?), and then of course a written test at the end of the sugya (summative assessment?), an oral explanation or note submission to demonstrate understanding (alternative assessments?).
In short, a station rotation is seemingly strikingly familiar. Has it been over-simplified here? Perhaps. Yet one thing is for certain - we should be far more comfortable in participating in this discussion.
So with an open mind, let the discussion continue ...