Sugata Mitra

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Sugata Mitra

Sugata Mitra (born February 12, 1952 in Calcutta , India ) is an Indian educational scientist and computer scientist . He teaches in England as a professor of "Educational technology" at the "School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences" of Newcastle University in Newcastle upon Tyne and as a visiting professor at the "Media Lab" of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Mitra became known through his experiment " Hole in the Wall ", which he started in 1999 , which researched the learning behavior of children without guidance and supervision. Inspired by its results, the NIIT founded the Hole-in-the-Wall Education Ltd. project in 2001 with the help of the World Bank . (HiWEL) with the aim of enabling children in an educationally poor environment to learn with little effort.

In 2012 he received the Leonardo European Corporate Learning Award for his commitment . In 2013 he received the TED prize, endowed with one million dollars, on the same occasion .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sugatam. Own information on the user page at www.wikispaces.com (English). Retrieved June 24, 2013 .
  2. ^ Sugata Mitra: Education researcher. Brief portrait at www.ted.com (English). Retrieved June 24, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Tat twam asi. From Homo Sapiens to Homo Eternal. In: Chip (magazine) . April 12, 2002, accessed June 24, 2013 .
  4. ↑ a b Pioneer for European education awarded at Schloss Bensberg. (PDF; 98 kB) Press release (PDF). (No longer available online.) September 25, 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 24, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.zukunft-personal.de  
  5. ↑ a b Linda Tutmann: Whoever can opera can also do math. In: Focus . July 1, 2011, accessed April 26, 2013 .
  6. ^ Pioneers for European Education Awarded at Schloss Bensberg. (engl.). October 8, 2012, accessed June 24, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Bergthaler: TED Prize 2013 goes to Sugata Mitra. March 2, 2013, accessed June 14, 2012 .
  8. ^ John Kluge: An Interview with the 2013 TED Prize Winner. (engl.). In: Forbes Magazine . February 26, 2013, accessed June 24, 2013 .
  9. ↑ 2013 TED Prize Awarded to Education Innovator Dr. Sugata Mitra. (engl.). In: Wallstreet: online . February 27, 2013, accessed June 24, 2013 .


personal data
SURNAME Mitra, Sugata
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian educationalist and computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Calcutta