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New Learning ToolsThrough the Alfred West Jr. Learning Lab, the School is working with faculty to develop interactive teaching materials that include interactive multimedia, streaming video, and online simulations. Now learning tools will be put into fuller play in Jon M. Huntsman Hall through the Wharton Lectern and advanced multimedia capabilities, and more faculty will be enabled to develop and employ technology-assisted tools in their teaching process. The new, more pervasive technology will build on existing resources such as Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS), the school’s financial data management system, is used by over 4,000 faculty and students at top tier business schools, including Stanford, Chicago, Northwestern, Columbia and Harvard. Other Learning Lab projects include OTIS, which recreates a bond-trading infrastructure, WSX, which provides students with an authentic trading experience by simulating the products in use by securities traders today, and FutureView, a marketing simulation that allows students to experience faculty-manipulated scenarios illustrating the concept of information acceleration.
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"Wharton's Learning Lab starts with what we’re teaching, and finds ways to make it better with interactivity. That level of interplay is very rare, and it’s a result of the commitment on the part of the School to supply the resources and create truly innovative programs."
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