Session on Self Organised Learning
Future Leadership Program
16 November 2022
Understanding Self Organised Learning
We are pleased to host Dr Sugata Mitra, who will talk about Self Organised Learning. A Self Organized Learning Environment (SOLE) is a program designed to support self-directed education. Sugata Mitra, first popularized the term in 1999, referencing an approach he developed following his Hole in the Wall experiments.
Dr Mitra will address educators and invitees at the school on Friday, 17th Feb 2023. This Event is by Invitation Only
Prof. Sugata Mitra
A Ph.D. in theoretical physics, Sugata Mitra retired in 2019 as Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University in England, after 13 years there including a year in 2012 as Visiting Professor at MIT MediaLab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He is currently Professor Emeritus at NIIT University, Rajasthan, India and a trustee of the Montessori Group, UK.
He conducted the Hole in the Wall (HIW) experiment, where in the year 1999 a computer was embedded within a wall in an Indian slum at Kalkaji, Delhi and children were allowed to freely use it. The experiment aimed at proving that kids could be taught computers very easily without any formal training. Sugata termed this as Minimally Invasive Education (MIE). The experiment has since been repeated at many places. In England, he developed his ideas into Self Organised Learning Environments (SOLE) and finally into Schools in the Cloud. He is the recipient of many awards and honorary doctorates from India, the UK, USA and many other countries in the world – among them the Dewang Mehta award for innovations in IT from the Government of India (2003), the million dollar TED award (2013) and the Brock Prize for Education Innovation (2022) from the USA.
His interests include Children’s Education, Remote Presence, Self-organising systems, Cognitive Systems, Physics and Consciousness.
