Paul Rühl has been Managing Director of the Bavarian Virtual University (BVU - Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern) since its foundation in 2000. The BVU is an institute set up by 30 Bavarian universities and universities of applied sciences. It is funded by the Free State of Bavaria.

The BVU finances the production and the operation of online-courses which the member universities can integrate into their study programmes. All courses provide individual tutoring; students of the member universities can take part free of charge. In the academic year of 2014 / 2015 there were 150,000 enrolments by nearly 50,000 Bavarian students.

Before he joined the BVU, Paul was Chief Editor at Langenscheidt's, Germanys leading publishing house for bilingual dictionaries. Until 1986 he worked as a reasercher in comparative educational and cultural studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, where he earned a doctorate in psycholinguistics.

Paul is Co-Chairperson of the Steering Committee of the German Eduserver (Deutscher Bildungsserver). He has been serving as a consultant for several German State and Federal Ministries and is a member of the Editorial Board of EURODL, the European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning.

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