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Learning Technology at Wharton
Wharton has made technology part of the integrated environment where learning and research take place. From day-to-day mechanics of managing life on campus to the advancement of e-commerce around the world, Wharton has staked a claim and commitment to business education leadership at the onset of the 21st Century.
Classroom Technology
Wharton Technology Featured On CNBC
Wharton was featured on CNBC on March 5, 2003. The program highlighted technology at Jon M. Huntsman Hall, such as the Wharton Lectern, use of the Alfred West Learning Lab in Professor Maurice Schweitzer's class, and interviews with Dean Harker and then-CIO Gerry McCartney.
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The design of Jon M. Huntsman Hall — from its cutting-edge technology to new classroom designs — is tailored to Wharton's innovative curriculum and interactive learning methods. With 324,000 square feet, 48 classrooms, 57 group study rooms, lecture halls, auditoriums, and conference rooms — the building is one of the most sophisticated large-scale instructional centers of any educational institution in the world.
The Alfred P. West Jr. Learning Lab
The Alfred P. West Jr. Learning Lab is Wharton's development center and experimental laboratory to explore new approaches to learning. The Learning Lab draws on the creative expertise of faculty and industry professionals to develop technology-enhanced educational materials that explore new paradigms for learning and instruction. The products developed by the Learning Lab engage students in real-world exercises that challenge them to apply principles they've learned across multiple disciplines and business environments. Now also being marketed by Addison-Wesley, recent projects include OTIS, Fare Game, and FutureView.
Knowledge@Wharton
An interactive websource that provides worldwide access to the thinking of some of the top business minds on issues ranging from finance and marketing to human resources and business ethics, including analyses of business trends, interviews with industry leaders and Wharton faculty, articles on recent business research, book reviews, and conference reports. The site features a layered presentation and an in-depth searchable database. At the end of 2003, it had more than 300,000 subscribers and was available in Spanish and Portuguese through Universia-Knowledge@Wharton.
Wharton Research Data Services
Call it WRDS for the business wise: The Wharton School has more than 2 terabytes of vital business data online, giving students and faculty at the world's leading business schools point-and-click access to academic research and making complex data mining as easy as surfing the Web. Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS), a state-of-the-art data management system originally developed for Wharton faculty, is now available to researchers at more than 100 institutions that have licensed the service, including Stanford, Chicago, London Business School, Northwestern, Columbia, and Harvard. More than 20,000 faculty and students at top-tier business schools have used the system, which is becoming the standard for academic data research.
SPIKE
Students at most universities rarely get to influence school policy, course content, or anything other than their own grades. But at the Wharton School the evolution of SPIKE, Wharton's breakthrough intranet system, is a story of student involvement. Now in its fifth generation, award-winning SPIKE is Wharton's central nervous system of communications for more than 1,500 MBA students and 2,000 undergraduate students. For the past five years, Wharton students have played an important role in developing SPIKE and helping to convert the School's intranet into a full-blown enterprise information portal. The students are largely responsible for annually redesigning SPIKE's content, testing its limits, and making sure that the product stays focused on student needs.
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