Comment by ploum

OP here: I teach Open Source Strategies.

The main strategy is collaboration. If you are smart enough to:

1. Identify your problem 2. Ask someone about it 3. Get an answer which improve your understanding

Then you are doing pretty good by all standards

Another trick I sometimes use. I take one student which has hard time articulate it a concept. I take student two who don’t understand that concept. I say to student 1: "You have 20 minutes to teach student 2 the concept. When I come back, you will be graded according to his answers"

(I, of course, not only grade that. But it forces both of them to make an extra effort, student 2 not willing to be the cause for student 1 demise)