It started with a hole in the wall. Sugata Mitra, working for a software company in Delhi, cut a gap between his firm and the slum next door, putting out an Internet-connected computer for kids in the ...

Imagine a school without walls, textbooks or teachers, where children are inspired to learn by their own sense of wonder. That’s what Sugata Mitra dreamt when he first placed a computer into a hole in ...

What if everything you thought you knew about education was wrong? What if students learn more quickly on their own, working in teams, than in a classroom with a teacher? What if tests and discipline ...

Researchers have demonstrated that self-organization of neurons as they 'learn' follows a mathematical theory called the free energy principle. The principle accurately predicted how real neural ...

BLACK MOUNTAIN, On October 25th ­ October 27th, Black Mountain SOLE, the world’s first “self­organized learning environment” (SOLE) for higher education and beyond, is hosting an unconference to start ...

When students take a course, they experience more than just an interaction with course content. The learning environment includes the intellectual, social, emotional and physical environments of a ...