# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-siemens
# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:30:19.705Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-siemens"
name: "George Siemens"
slug: "george-siemens"
description: "George Siemens is a Canadian expatriate professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Arlington and professor and director of the Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning at the University of South Australia. He is known for his theory of connectivism, which seeks to understand learning in the digital age. He played a role in the early development of massive online open courses (MOOCs)."
tagline: "Canadian academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Siemens_at_TEDxNYED.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1970"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.092370666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/gsiemens"
    handle:    "gsiemens"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.connectivism.ca/"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "George Siemens"
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    title: "George Siemens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Siemens"
    title: "George Siemens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Siemens"
    title: "George Siemens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Siemens"
    title: "George Siemens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Siemens"
    title: "George Siemens"
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    title: "George Siemens"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump