The one thing that most scholars can agree upon when it comes to DE is that it has fundamentally changed the education landscape.  Peterson (2001) identifies how DE has changed the roles of teachers, modified education goals, and drastically changed student learning.  She begins by encouraging writing instructors/teachers to get more involved in the discussion about DE for two reasons: DE is all about writing and writing teacher’s should be driving the content creation; and writing courses are required courses, even in DE.  Much of the scholarship about DE has come from outside the field of English Studies, which is likely the reason for the trends of DE to have the content designed by someone other than the instructor teaching the course.  Such practices are actually the opposite of what DE is supposed to accomplish – it works to further separate the student from the instructor instead of bringing them closer together.