Resumen
The article focuses on the future of e-learning communities. Learning through reading involves more than a student and a book. The book is a technology that exists in a social context. Together, the book, the student, the teacher and other expert and novice readers the student encounters form a socio-technical system. If well designed, that system may support learning. The Internet is just one component of a new socio-technical system with great learning potential. While school systems are investing heavily in Internet hardware, they have yet to invest in. Some of the most important components for making Internet technology support learning how to best use this technology in the classroom, innovative software tools for learning and training teachers to learn those best practices as they come to be better understood. Open university create powerful distance learning environments, in most cases e-learning unfortunately means delivering content to students and adding an online discussion.