Sugata Mitra, a professor with a passion for computer-based teaching, has developed a new concept for education based on the premise that children can learn new and complex things will little or no supervision.

Mitra based his findings on an experiment that spanned 10 years. The experiment started with giving Indian slum children access to computers. Mitra found that the children, most of whom had never seen a computer, taught themselves and their peers about how to use the machine.

Succeeding experiments showed that children around the world can learn quickly even without a teacher supervising them. In another study, which was conducted in Cambodia, youngsters were given a simple math game, which no child would play with while inside the classroom.

The math game was left on a pavement, so kids would play with it while adults were away. Mitra found that the kids even showed off what they can do with the game.

After a few years, Mitra’s experiments went to even bigger heights. Groups of four children were given a computer each and were made to solve GCSE questions. The best group solved all the questions in 20 minutes, while the worst finished in 45 minutes.

With all these significant findings, the professor created a new educational concept called http://www.greenstar.org/butterflies/Hole-in-the-Wall.htm”>Self-Organized Learning Environments (SOLE). The learning environment consisted of computers that each had a bench for four children. Mitra studied children in Italy and the UK, and all showed similar results.