George Siemens

George Siemens was raised in a Mennonite home with no connection to technology and external media. However, this did not impede Siemens' future technological contributions as Siemens later advanced the theory of Connectivism and contributed early on to Massive Open Online Courses. Currently, Siemens is a professor in the learning analytics program at the University of Texas at Arlington. Siemens teaches courses in Experimental Design and Research Methodology, Human and Artificial Cognition, and Psychology of Learning Sciences.

Education

• PhD in Sustainability–University of Aberdeen, Scotland

• MA in Distributed Learning–Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

Some of his most cited work includes

• Long, P., & Siemens, G. (2011, September 12). Penetrating the fog: Analytics in learning and education. Educause Review. https://er.educause.edu/articles/2011/9/penetrating-the-fog-analytics-in-learning-and-education

• Siemens, G. (2013). Learning analytics: The emergence of a discipline. American Behavioral Scientist, 57(10), 1380–1400. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764213498851

• Siemens, G., & Baker, R. S. J. D. (2012). Learning analytics and educational data mining: Towards communication and collaboration. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, 252–254. https://doi.org/10.1145/2330601.2330661

Video

• Overview of connectivism - Dr George Siemens

Websites

• Google Scholar: Siemens

• The Texas Center for Educational Technology: George Siemens

• The University of Texas at Arlington: George Siemens

• University of South Australia: George Siemens