The learning environment is active, student centered. Pride of ownership. Students help create the information base. Socialization, personal interactions, and peer pressure motivate students to achieve. Student comfort level goes up.
Students can work at their own pace, at their own best times.
Student participation can be made anonymous, where that is desirable. Students can be inspired by knowing the labors and insights of their peers. They have a better chance to see the fairness of grading and to see why some students get better grades than others. Effective Instructional Delivery Procedures can be customized for different teaching strategies and learning styles and abilities. Students share in evolving an automatically organized information base and share common work areas, making true collaboration more likely.