Group work projects... There you picked out a pest. I always fucking hated it. Hm, if you talk about some newer guideline, maybe that's the reason why it got more and more with such projects...
Saying, today I can see I'm pretty autonomous with learning things. There are some things where this doesn't work, which you need to be told through a human - like languages -, but on the whole, skills I acquired during the last couple of years, it got stuck the best way if I went reading, maybe even watched a video tutorial where you needed to visually see what you're doing.
Reading and mimicry, that you may call it like.