Dr. Markus Deimann, Research Assistant in the Department of Instructional Technology and Media from May 2006 to August 2013 and since September 2013 Assistant Professor (Akademischer Rat), completed his studies of Educational Sciences and Political Sciences at the University of Mannheim.

Afterwards he has been working as Resesarch Assistant on the Project BMBF "Mulitmediales Fernstudium Medizinische Informatik (MEDIN)" (Multimedia-based Distance Study Medical Computer Science) at the Technische Universität Ilmenau (Ilmenau University of Technology) and at the University of Erfurt. Furthermore, he has been Visiting Scholar at the Florida State University, Tallahassee (USA) for one year. In 2011 he has been Scholarship Holder at the Open University (UK) for three months.