Dr. Stefanie Panke is an educational technology specialist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is native German, and holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics and Literature from the University of Bielefeld, which she completed in 2012 with summa cum laude. Her research interests comprise social media, informal learning, open educational resources, and design thinking. As social media coordinator for AACE she is responsible for the blog AACE Review. Stefanie is an adjunct professor for teacher education at the Asian University for Women. She also teaches Web Science at Cologne University of Applied Sciences and Design Thinking at Münster University of Applied Sciences.

My long teaching experience as a teacher at a vocational school and as a professor of didactics in teacher education and in university didactics brings me more and more to the understanding of teaching as jazz: improvisation, irritation, deviations from the standard, being agile and taking new unusual paths. This is especially possible in transnational collaboration. Some of it can be found on this platform ...