Stefanie Panke studied Philosophy, Linguistics, Literature, Computational Science and European Studies at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. After her Master’s degree, she worked on various e-learning projects at the Bertelsmann Foundation and contributed to the web magazine “europa-digital.” From 2003 to 2008 Stefanie Panke joined the academic staff of the Knowledge Media Research Center. The interdisciplinary institute has an international reputation for research on e-learning. Her project group developed the educational Web portal e-teaching.org, a comprehensive website on technological, didactical and organizational aspects of e-learning in higher education. As an adjunct teacher, she lectured media psychology at Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences.

Stefanie has recently completed her PhD on the information design of educational websites. Her research interests lie at the crossroads of community building, computer mediated communication and learning activities in digital environments. Her main foci have been e-learning, evaluation of information environments and user behavior in social software. Stefanie serves as a member of several program committees (ED-MEDIA, E-LEARN, ECEL) and as a reviewer for MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching.

She uses oncloud.ninehub.com, a free moodle course environment, as a repository for her class material.