George Siemens

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George Siemens is a theorist on learning in a digitally-based society. He is the author of the article Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age and the book Knowing Knowledge - an exploration of the impact of the changed context and characteristics of knowledge.

Siemens and Stephen Downes have developed a new learning theory called connectivism which uses a network as the central metaphor for learning, focusing on knowledge as making connections.

Born in Mexico and currently living and working in Canada, Siemens is the Associate Director in the Learning Technologies Centre at the University of Manitoba.