Professor Dr. Rolf Arnold, born in 1952, obtained his PhD at the University of Heidelberg, worked thereafter in an International Adult Education Centre, obtained his postdoctoral qualification at the Distance University of Hagen, Germany, in 1987, and has been working since 1990 at the Department of Pedagogics (in the fields of Vocational and Adult Education) at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. He is also Scientific Director and Chairman of the Board for the Distance and International Studies Centre (DISC), andand the Speaker of the Virtual Campus Rhineland‐Palatinate (VCRP).