Svenja Bedenlier is an assistant professor for e-learning in higher and adult education at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. She previously was a research associate at the University of Oldenburg (Working group: Educational Technology) and was involved in teaching as well as research projects on student engagement in TEL contexts in higher education and on infrastructures for OER. Her research interests broadly revolve around application of educational technology within higher education, as well as open and distance education and internationalization processes within higher education.