Dr Andreas Meiszner

For the past 20+ years I have been working in pushing the envelope on getting higher education ready for the digital age. I learned the ropes at the Institute of Educational Technologies of the British Open University from where I got my PhD in 2011 for my thesis that is titled ‘The Emergence of Free / Open Courses - Lessons from the Open Source Movement’. In a nutshell, I was already done with researching and understanding the concept of MOOCs a year before they became popular and brought up the iconic ventures like Coursera, EdX or FutureLearn. 



Since 2012 I then gathered further practical experience in the design and delivery of virtual higher education offerings. As an educator I worked with the University of Liverpool Management School (UK), in their large-scale Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) program where I have been overseeing the globally distributed faculty and also worked with 500+ professional doctoral students. This allowed me once again to learn the ropes on how globally distributed higher education can be run and managed at scale. 



I am also a founding member of the DoctorateHub, which is an online mentoring community for advanced and doctoral students. The DoctorateHub provides modular, efficient, and effective training and guidance on three flexible routes: Club, taught and mentored journeys.