Sugata Mitra, born on 12 February 1952, is an Indian computer scientist and educational theorist best known for his Hole in the Wall experiment, which is widely cited in works on literacy and education. He has a Ph.D. in physics and is Professor Emeritus at NIIT University, Rajasthan, India. He 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 the MIT Media Lab. He is a leading proponent of minimally invasive education and won the TED Prize in 2013.
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He is best known for his "Hole in the Wall" experiment, and widely cited in works on literacy and education.
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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.
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