Wharton Learning and Technology Symposium 2009

Wharton Learning Lab in conjunction with other members of Wharton Computing prepares for the first Learning and Technology Symposium to be held May 13th, 2009. This half-day symposium is titled, "The Evolution of Learning: New World, New Expectations, New Opportunities" and will explore ways to re-imagine the function of higher education given the changing status of the world.
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03/11/09: Tragedy of the TUNA Goes International

The Learning Lab's Tragedy of the TUNA simulation enjoyed its first international deployment at the Indian School of Business under the lead of Professor Gireesh Shrimali. It was a positive learning experience for all parties involved and the Learning Lab hopes to continue on a path to increase external outreach in the future.

11/22/08: German MBA Students Experience Learning Lab Simulation

The German MBA Conference 2008 was held at Huntsman Hall from November 21st - 23rd, 2008. For one of the sessions on the 22nd, Michael Dreimann WG'10 organized a Learning Lab Simulation run of Tragedy of the TUNA with faculty author Professor Eric Orts providing his debrief. The students learned the importance of cooperation and preservation of resources in a closed system where those resources are limited.

11/14/08 - 11/15/08: The Wharton Social Stock Exchange Simulation

On November 14th and 15th, the Learning Lab ran a redesigned version of WSX (Wharton Securities Exchange) for one of the sessions in the Net Impact conference titled "The Wharton Social Stock Exchange Simulation" lead by Wharton students Saket Saurabh, Shawn Lee, and Ben Yi. More About Net Impact »

November 2008: Learning Lab Member Publishes Article for Fusion Authority and Presents at Adobe MAX

Learning Lab Sr. Programmer Analyst, Nathan Mische, shows other developers how to consume complex web services via ColdFusion in the latest edition of the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. As the lead developer of the open source ColdFire Project, he also gave a presentation at the ColdFusion Unconference at Adobe MAX 2008 covering the Firebug and ColdFire Firefox extensions.