Minimally invasive education is a form of learning in which children work in largely unsupervised environments, developed from an experiment Sugata Mitra ran while at NIIT in 1999 known as the Hole in the Wall. The project grew into Hole in the Wall Education Limited, a joint effort between NIIT and the International Finance Corporation, and has been deployed across roughly 300 learning stations reaching about 300,000 children in India and several African countries. The program has received the Digital Opportunity Award from WITSA and has been widely covered in the media. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Core ClaimMinimally invasive education is a form of learning in which children operate in unsupervised environments. 1 FAQs
Where did minimally invasive education come from?
It began with the 1999 Hole in the Wall experiment by Sugata Mitra at NIIT in New Delhi.
It arose from an experiment by Sugata Mitra while he was at NIIT in 1999, often called the Hole in the Wall. On 26 January 1999 his team carved a hole in the wall separating the NIIT premises from the adjoining slum in Kalkaji, New Delhi, and put a freely accessible computer through it. The computer proved popular among the slum children, who with no prior experience learned to use it on their own.
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The methodology arose from an experiment done by Sugata Mitra while at NIIT in 1999
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a form of learning in which children operate in unsupervised environments
Hole in the Wall origin
On 26 January 1999, Mitra's team carved a "hole in the wall" that separated the NIIT premises from the adjoining slum in Kalkaji, New Delhi.
Developed By: Sugata Mitra, Lead
The methodology arose from an experiment done by Sugata Mitra while at NIIT in 1999, often called The Hole in the Wall, which has since gone on to become a significant project with the formation of Hole in the Wall Education Limited (HiWEL), a cooperative effort between NIIT and the International Finance Corporation, employed in some 300 'learning stations', covering some 300,000 children in India and several African countries.
In Group: Progressive and Child-Centered Education Models, Lead
Minimally invasive education (MIE) is a form of learning in which children operate in unsupervised environments.
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