Sugata Mitra is one of the most awarded educationists in the world. Amongst his many

global awards is the million-dollar TED Prize in 2013.

A Ph.D. in theoretical physics, Sugata Mitra 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 MIT MediaLab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He remains

Professor Emeritus at NIIT University, Rajasthan, India, the organization where his initial

work began.

His work on children’s education includes the ‘hole in the wall’ experiment where children

access the internet in unsupervised groups, the idea of Self Organised Learning

Environments (SOLEs) in schools, the role of experienced educators over the internet in a

‘Granny Cloud’ and the School in the Cloud where children take charge of their learning –

anywhere.

His interests include Children’s Education, Remote Presence, Self-organising systems,

Cognitive Systems, Complex Dynamical Systems, Physics and Consciousness.