A whole course, and every element of a course, can be structured as an integron. Think of learning from the point of view of the learner. You come in to a lecture theatre ready to listen only to be told that you now have to sit the first exam of the course. The shoe is on the other foot and now you, along with the other students, are off balance. As expected, almost everyone fails, with the positive result that everyone has a baseline on which to judge their own improvement.
Motivation is now very high.
As one student commented after going through this experience in the human computer interface design course, he felt that he was quite accomplished in the area of computer science, and could not accept that he had done so badly until he found out why. Key elements of the method may seem obvious. Everyone is seen as a learner and everything that happens in the context of the course is used as data to generate insights and understanding. They had to keep diaries of observations and insights attained during every day activities. Much of what is important is learned at the level of the unsaid and the presupposed.