A learning community is anything that helps an individual person within a group, whether it is a face to face meeting or a group chat on a social media platform such as WhatsApp or Facebook. The learning platforms allow safe and secure online teaching and learning for each member of the education society.

These E-Learning Communities can be managed by the teacher in charge and made accessible for the pupils, parents and teachers within the classroom. The government set a target for all children to be able to connect to a personalised online workspace by 2007. (Department of Education, 2005)

When I reflected upon the benefits of these e-Learning Platforms, I could see which would benefit my own platform. These would be a parent accessibility link so that parents and teachers could monitor the work the children were doing online. I would also try to incorporate how easy the children within the classroom could connect in order to work together online.

However a handful of teachers and parents will still be in denial about how a e-learning platforms is able to help the children in a positive way and these few will not see the benefits of moving some learning, online. Making there a disagreement in the workplace about which learning community works best for the children involved. Is it face to face tutorials or is it online communities where the pupils can be in a similar community behind the computer screen where the teachers can still monitor and filter the negativity.