Prof. Dr. Bernhard Ertl received his diploma in computer science with a focus on pedagogy in 1998 and Ph.D. in 2003 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. He received the habilitation with the venia empirical educational research and teaching-learning research at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich in 2012. He was a research assistant to the chair of empirical pedagogics und educational psychology at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (1999–2006), Research assistant to the dean’s office of the department of education (2006–2012) and to the media lab of the department of human sciences (2012–2014) at University der Bundeswehr Munich, and a professor of technology-based learning to the department of interactive media and educational technologies at Donau-University Krems (2014–2016). Since 2016, he has been a professor of educational sciences focused on learning and teaching with media at the department for human sciences at University der Bundeswehr Munich.