Manu Kapur
Professor and Director of the Future Learning Initiative at ETH
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An engineer by bachelors training, Manu Kapur was a pre-university mathematics teacher for five years before receiving his doctorate in instructional technology and media from Teachers College, Columbia University in New York, where he also completed a Master of Science in Applied Statistics. He also has a Master of Education from the NIE. Early in his academic career, Manu Kapur directed a $50m interactive and digital media R&D program at the Ministry of Education of Singapore to jumpstart research on interactive and digital media in education in Singapore. Since January 2017 Prof. Manu KAPUR is a full Professor at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences of the ETH Zurich and holds the Chair of Learning Sciences and Higher Education