Has pilot training got its knickers in a twist?
Schools are definitely in favour of 'talk and chalk' from my experience, and other 'trendy' techniques tend to dilute the LO in any case.
That said, there is a move for teachers to spend less time talking and for students to spend more time practising, the theory being that people learn by doing not watching.
CBT is starting to be implemented quite well, although there were a few teething problems initially.
Initially, schools and heads of departments assumed that in order to increase understanding students must simply practice more.
So they still had the same amount of work to do, and the course wasn't presented in a different way, but students simply did more questions on a certain topic in order to practice.
What people realised however is that this approach wasn't helping because it wasn't improving understanding, but encouraging learning from rote and teaching to the exam.
So what's happening is that firstly new syllabi are being introduced for different subjects with less content, and many 'stand alone' topics which don't fit in with the 'flow' of the syllabus are being removed.
Then teachers are being encouraged to teach in a way that makes logical sense, i.e. ensuring that the students have a grasp of fundamentals, and clearly building on the fundamentals as we advance through the course.
It's very good and students tend to prefer it.
CBT can be good, when implemented properly. Trouble is many people have a vague idea what the aims of CBT are but no clue about how to properly deliver a CBT structured course.
Part of the problem was that the government seemed to believe that the more you teach the better, they didn't take into account how relevant the material is, or how the volume of work effects the students ability to understand because of time constraints.
No doubt you can draw parallels with aviation.