By Adi Robertson, the Verge
“Big ideas” conference TED has awarded its 2013 prize to Sugata Mitra, a longtime educational expert and proponent of “minimally invasive education.” The TED Prize is awarded every year to fund a project by its recipient, but in 2013, the award has been increased from $100,000 to $1 million. The money will help Mitra start the “School in the Cloud,” a lab in India where students can try out a variety of online learning tools and receive online mentoring. These “controlled experiments” will help test the effectiveness of different educational methods, most presumably focused on testing Mitra’s philosophy of self-organized teaching.
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