If you obtained one of your qualifications through distance education study, you will have noticed that at the beginning of a given study module there is the heading: Course Team. Under it are listed course writers, content editors, language editors, graphic designers, programme coordinator, chief editor, course coordinator, etc. Does this not strike you that all these professionals make a contribution to a single lesson? It really should because when you compare the lesson by a lecturer in the conventional classroom, the lecturer prepares the lesson without necessarily consulting any of those people listed in the DE material. What is.