ABSTRACT
Goals, tasks and social structures are key dimensions of a learning community classroom, but what else is required to make it operate? The term ‘resources’ has sometimes been used in a narrow sense to mean only texts to be used by learners (as in ‘resource-based learning’) but here I wish to use it in a wider sense to refer to all human and physical resources – texts, objects, communications channels, ICT, and so on – which the learning community might call on.
