The web allows students to experiment with different learning styles than the traditional lecture-delivered information. The web is highly interactive. Students seem to enjoy manipulating things, clicking to different web sites searching for information and experimenting with search engines and new ways to find information. Additionally, the knowledge base available on the web is wide and varied, giving students access to resources and sites related to specific topics. Because the technology is relatively new, and few students have created web pages previously, they are encouraged to teach and learn from each other as well as from course information and other web sites.
Students actually learn how to learn, a skill they can transfer to all other areas of their life.
The learning classroom assists learners to form and participate in collaborative learning activities. Learning with the web and student-created web sites is a new experience for the majority of students. This in itself encourages collaboration as the students learn their way around the web and create their own web pages. The nature of the web is linked and cooperative. The hyperlinks that are the basis of its dynamic nature connect ideas and the people who create them.