Teachers and mentors, and telementors come to them by visiting the rooms in which these scholars gather or via the Internet in synchronou and asynchronous manners. The business of education becomes community oriented or organic and pedagogiclly grounded. The teacher is not godlike and decision making shouldn't be vertical, it should be horizontal. And it isn't about the tools, either. Open Source provides some avenues of non-dependency.
Virtual environment allows for wider range and many levels of multi-media presentation.
It allows for diversity.