Digital learning innovator to lead new research at UT Arlington

George Siemens, an internationally known expert and theorist in the field of digital learning, has joined The University of Texas at Arlington  to lead a lab exploring the critical demands new learning technologies place on higher education. The laboratory is called the Learning Innovation and Networked Knowledge Research Lab, or LINK Lab. It will open this spring with Siemens as director. Siemens also is the director of the MOOC Research Initiative , a project focused on Massive Open Online Courses that has been supported by the Bill &