{"id":364,"date":"2021-09-18T15:50:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T22:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0216\/?p=364"},"modified":"2021-09-18T16:10:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T23:10:24","slug":"people-in-the-field-dr-george-siemens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0216\/people-in-the-field-dr-george-siemens\/","title":{"rendered":"People in the field | Dr. George Siemens"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did not know anything about Dr. George Siemens until I read Weller\u2019s 25 years of Ed Tech. I saw his name popping-up a few times in different chapters and that is why I chose him. When I started looking for information about him, I unintentionally found out that he was born in Mexico, my motherland. Because of this, I felt a connection and became more interested on finding out about his background and his work.<\/span><\/p>\n

George\u2019s great grandparents were German Mennonites who actually settled in Canada back in the 1900. Because the Canadian government wanted to send their children to public schools his family decided to relocate again, this time to a Mennonite village in Mexico. George was born in 1964 in a rural farming community of Mexico where he lived until he was 6 years old. During that time, he and his family did not have access to electricity or paved roads so they moved around by horse and buggy. Farm life in a small rural community provided him with a deep understanding of how information and knowledge work under limited circumstances. He and his family moved back to the province of Manitoba in Canada. He is now an internationally known author, researcher and theorist in the field of learning, knowledge management, and technology (CSU, 2015). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGeorge Siemens is an educator and researcher on learning, networks, analytics and visualization, openness, and organizational effectiveness in digital environments\u201d (EDUCAUSE, 2021<\/a>). He is considered a pioneer in the concept of Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs. Through his work in technology, online learning and sense-making ,he proposed Connectivism as a theoretical framework that understands learning in a digital age and suggests that technology plays an important role in the learning process.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0A great interview with Dr. George Siemens can be found here<\/a> where he talks about the evolution of MOOCs and his prediction of where they are headed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEducation is not about building better Googlers\u201d (Siemens, 2010) <\/span>
\nLearn more about this on the video below.<\/span><\/p>\n