Higher Education Landscape 2030

Dominic Orr is senior researcher at FiBS Research Institute, Berlin, Germany and adjunct professor for education management at University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia. He has a doctorate in comparative education and has worked on the relationship between research, policy and practice in many international contexts.

Maren Luebcke is a research associate in the department of university management at HIS-HE, Hannover, Germany. Her consulting and research focus at HIS-HE is the digitization of research and teaching at universities. She holds a PhD in Communication and Internet Sociology and a Master of Higher Education. 

J. Philipp Schmidt is Director of Learning Innovation at MIT Media Lab, USA, where he leads, teaches and develops ML Learning initative. He is also co-founder and board member of Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU), a non-profit organization that provides access to higher education through public libraries.

Markus Ebner is a researcher in the organizational unit Educational Technology at Graz University of Technology, Austria. His doctoral thesis deals with the fields of e-learning, mobile learning, technology enhanced learning and open educational resources. He focuses on learning analytics in the primary and secondary school environment and on informatics.

Klaus Wannemacher is a senior consultant and project manager in the university management division of the HIS-Institute for Higher Education Development (HIS-HE), Hannover, Germany. He supports universities, non-university research institutions and ministries with consulting services and research projects with a focus on the digital transformation at universities. 

Martin Ebner is head of the Department of Educational Technology at Graz University of Technology, Austria. Furthermore, he researches and teaches as a habilitated media information scientist. His main focuses are Seamless Learning, Learning Analytics, Open Educational Resources, Maker Education and Informatics Basic Education.

Dieter Dohmen is founder, owner and director of the FiBS Research Institute for the Economics of Education and Social Affairs, Berlin, Germany, and works as a senior researcher and consultant, currently in Germany as well as in various other European and non-European countries. After his studies in sports and social sciences, he obtained a diploma in economics and social sciences and wrote his doctoral thesis on family welfare benefits and student support at the intersection of economics and law.