Prof. Sugata Mitra
Prof. Mitra works in the areas of Cognitive Science, Information Science and Educational Technology. He has been working on these areas as well as on Physics and Energy for more than 30 years.
His contributions include a number of inventions and first-time applications. Among other applications, he is credited with having started the database publishing industry (particularly the Yellow Page industry) in India and Bangladesh, as well as having implemented the first applications of digital multimedia and Internet based education in India. His experiments (often referred to as “The Hole In The Wall” experiments) with children and the Internet have been reported worldwide since 1999.
His current research interests include technologies for remote and rural education, distance education, instructional robotics, self organizing systems, and collaborative systems on the Internet.
He is Professor of Educational Technology in the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, UK. He is also the Director of Research of his school and Chief Scientist Emeritus of NIIT, India.
Title of presentation
Self Organised Learning and Mediation Environments - the future of schools?
Presentation date / time
May 22, 2009 - 11:00 - See schedule
Presentation abstract or description
The talk reports on experiments with self organised learning by groups of children with free, unsupervised access to the Internet in public spaces. The original experiments, often called the 'hole in the wall'' experiments, lead to the creation of SOLEs, Self Organised Learning Environments with remote mediation over the Internet from a SOME, a Self Organised Mediation Environment. It is proposed that SOLEs and SOMEs can replace schooling in areas where good schools cannot exist and good teachers are not available.
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