Sugata Mitra
Pioneering Educational Researcher | TED Prize Winner
About
Sugata Mitra is a globally recognized educational researcher who revolutionized learning through his 'Hole in the Wall' experiments. As the 2013 TED Prize winner, Mitra built the 'School in the Cloud', an online learning lab that empowers children to direct their own education.
His research has shown how self-organized learning environments can help students, even in the most disadvantaged communities, achieve extraordinary results. Mitra's visionary keynotes inspire audiences to rethink the future of education and unleash the limitless potential of young minds.
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Build a School in the Cloud
Onstage at TED2013, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other -- using resources and mentoring from the cloud. Hear his inspiring vision for Self Organized Learning Environments.
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