CFFN (Canada Foundation for Nepal)

Dr. Sugata Mitra's now famous "Hole in the Wall" experiments conducted in India's slums and remote areas made the following four findings:
1) Remoteness affects the quality of education
2) Education Technology should be implemented in remote areas first
3) Values are acquired: doctrine and dogma are imposed
4) Learning is a self-organizing system

He proposes introduction of technology assisted and self-organizing learning systems to not only improve basic education but also the ability to deal with an increasingly complex and connected world. He expalins the need to create inclusive educational solutions that address all sections of society and help transform them. And proposes "Minimally Invasive Education" which uses the power of collaboration and the natural curiosity of children to catalyze learning.

Click here to see the TED presentation of Dr. Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology and the founder of hole-in-the-wall.com

Click here to see a new TED presentation of Dr. Mitra, with newer findings.

Written by Whitson Gordon, Where to Get the Best Free Education Online is a great article that summarizes some of the best free and online education. The author writes about the resources of The OpenCourseWare Consortium, with mention are video courses and lectures on Software and Business from MIT, IT and Business Transformation from MIT, Introduction to Business from Kaplan University. He then goes on to introducing The Khan Academy, Academic Earth with special mention of lectures from 19 universities, iTunes U, WikiVersity, Textbook Revolution with special mention of its free textbooks, Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative, the Supplemental Resources section of MIT, and Google special search techniques and obscure tricks.
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