Job Experience: freelance journalist (1968-1974) for Radio (SWF, SDR)
1973 doctorate in education, Dr.phil. Universität Tübingen, (Prof.Dr.G. Dohmen)
1970 - 1975 member of Deutsches Institut f. Fernstudien a.d. Universität Tübingen
1975 - until today Akademischer Oberrat, Zentrales Institut f. Fernstudienforschung, FernUniversität in Hagen, Since 15 years president of the Council (Konvent).
Manager of the Institute (Geschäftsführer)
Member (former Vice President) of the German Society for Media in Sciernce, GMW, Göttingen;
Several European projects (LINGUA, EUROFORM, LEONARDO).
Teaching:
Course responsibility for 09700/09705: Grundlagen des Fernstudiums / Essentials of Distance Education (author: B. Holmberg)
List of publications:
Editor: ZIFF Papiere (105 seperate issues since 1975)
Co-editor: GMW Forum (quarterly)
Medien in der Wissenschaft (vol. 1-4)
Author: since 1973 'Medien im Hochschulunterricht', some 60 articles, in Handbooks (Enzyklopädie Erziehungswissenschaft, 'Wörterbuch der Weiterbildung'), journals (Unterrichtswissenschaft, Zeitschrift für Hochschuldidaktik, Open Learning, Research in Distance education, Distance Education, FORUM).
Examples:'Drop In and Drop Out. The Need of Definition'. In: B. Holmberg/ G.E.Ortner (eds),
Research into Distance Education. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1991
Fernstudium oder Offenes Lernen' In: Professionalisierung im Fernstudium.
Papiere des 5. BRIEF Symposiums über Fernstudium und Fernunterricht, Tübingen 1992
A comment upon Fordism in distance education in relation to the reunification process in Germany' in:

Distance Education, Vol. 16 No 2, Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia,1995, p.302ff
Monographs and project reports:(examples)
PC Tutor.Bericht über ein PC-gestütztes Tutorensystem, Hagen 1989;