PD Dr. Markus Deimann, MA, is a speaker, writer, podcaster and reseacher working at the intersection of education and technology. He has been a research assistant at the FernUniversität in Hagen since May, 2006. He completed his studies of educational sciences and political sciences at the University of Mannheim with a master’s degree. After that he became a research assistant in the BMBF-Project ‘Multimediales Fernstudium Medizinische Informatik (MEDIN)’ at the University of Technology Ilmenau and at the University of Erfurt. Furthermore, for one year, he became a visiting scholar at the Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA. Since 2011 he is a fellow of the OpenLearn Network at the Open University UK. He works as a peer reviewer for several international journals (e.g. IRRODL) as well as for various international conferences.