Six basic parametres key to SOLE approach: Mitra

Rebecca Vukovic

By Rebecca Vukovic
Published August 25, 2014

Indian-born educational visionary, Sugata Mitra has been described by London’s The Times newspaper as a “global education superstar”.

His world-famous Hole in the Wall experiments in 1999 revealed that children from any socio-economic or cultural background can master ...

This story appeared in the Term 3, 2014 edition of TechnologyEd.

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