Dr. Olaf Zawacki-Richter

Olaf Zawacki-Richter holds a Ph.D. from the School of Education at Oldenburg University. His dissertation addresses the topic of student and faculty support in online distance education. Dr. Zawacki-Richter has published papers and articles in the field of distance education and HR development. He served as invited chair and reviewer at international conferences. Olaf is faculty member in the MBA in Educational Management offered by the Faculty of Education at Oldenburg University. He is also teaching in the rank of an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Online Master of Distance Education programme, jointly offered by University of Maryland University College (USA) and Oldenburg University where he was a member of the academic staff of the Centre for Distance Education from 1999 to 2003.

Between 2003 and 2007 Olaf worked as project manager at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management in Frankfurt. Early in 2007 Olaf returned to the University of Oldenburg and joined the team of the Devision of Continuing Education and Educational Management. In September 2008 Dr. Zawacki-Richter started a fixed term professorship in educational technology at the FernUniversity in Hagen.