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george_siemensGeorge Siemens

Founder and President of Complexive Systems Inc. is currently affiliated with the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute (TEKRI) at Athabasca University. 

George Siemens, Founder and President of Complexive Systems Inc., a research lab assisting organizations to develop integrated learning structures for global strategy execution. In 2006 he authored a book - Knowing Knowledge - an exploration of how the context and characteristics of knowledge have changed, and what it means to organizations today. In 2009, he published the Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning (with Peter Tittenberger.

George is currently affiliated with the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute (TEKRI) at Athabasca University. His role as a social media strategist involves planning, researching, and implementing social networked technologies, with focus on systemic impact and institutional change.Prior to TEKRI, he was the Associate Director, Research and Development with the Learning Technologies Centre at University of Manitoba. George has presented at numerous national and international conferences, on topics which include: the role of new media in learning, systemic change, social media and networked learning, elearning in vocational education, streaming media, and connectivism.

He underlined the difficulty of designing educational policies in such a changing technological and social situation like the current one and the need to adapt to this change with planning and strategies bearing in mind that the decisions made now should not limit the possibilities that the future may offer. From the viewpoint of the “connectivism” learning theory he indicated the importance of developing the learning capacity of the student in and outside school. Schools should not teach the things that students know how to do for themselves and should focus on aspects like information evaluation, scientific reasoning (mathematical, causal, correlation, etc.) and creativity.