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Acquisition of Computer Literacy Skills through Self-Organizing Systems of Learning among Children in Bhutan and India
Sugata Mitra; Ritu Dangwal
Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education Vol. 47, No. 3 (2017) pp. 275–292
This article describes a study under the Reaching the Unreached component of the Chiphen Rigpel project between the governments of Bhutan and India. This initiative is an attempt to provide computer literacy to children of Bhutan through setting up &...
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Collaborative Learning amongst Distance Learners of Mathematics
Kurien Philip; Sugata Mitra
Open Learning Vol. 27, No. 3 (2012) pp. 227–247
This paper describes the effects of collaborative support on groups of distance learners of General Certificate of Secondary Education mathematics. Two experiments are described. In each case, learners were provided with teleconferencing with peers, ...
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Management of Remote Mediation for Children’s Education over the Internet
Suneeta Kulkarni; Sugata Mitra
Global Learn 2010 (May 17, 2010) pp. 2044–2049
This paper describes the management of remote mediation using Skype in self organized learning environments [SOLEs]. These developed in the context of the “Hole in the wall” experiments which had showed that, given the facilities, groups of children ...
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Effects of remoteness on the quality of education: A case study from North Indian schools
Sugata Mitra; Ritu Dangwal; Leher Thadani
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 24, No. 2 (Jan 01, 2008) pp. 168–180
This paper studies the relationship between geographic remoteness and the quality of primary education in rural Northern India. It then discusses this relationship in the context of educational technology. There is a significant negative...
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Acquisition of computing literacy on shared public computers: Children and the "hole in the wall"
Sugata Mitra; Ritu Dangwal; Shiffon Chatterjee; Swati Jha; Ravinder Bisht; Preeti Kapur
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 21, No. 3 (Jan 01, 2005) pp. 407–426
Earlier work, often referred to as the "hole in the wall" experiments, has shown that groups of children can learn to use public computers on their own. This paper presents the method and results of an experiment conducted to investigate whether...