A Self Organized Learning Environment (SOLE) is an approach to provide self-directed education to students in remote or troubled areas where good teachers are not available. The program is intended to provide a means of a quality education through access to the internet. This approach has been used in South Africa, Italy, and New Delhi. Experiments were performed by Sugata Mitra, an education scientist, to measure the results of the SOLE program. wikipedia 
The program has been found to promote teamwork and allowed students to advance at their own pace. Because it is self-directed, however, there are some downsides to the approach of not having learning occur through structured lesson plans.