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Trend Watch: Collaborating with Students
Hmmmmm an awful lot of Universities are working with students to develop in-house iPhone applications. From the University of Maryland’s Mobility Initiative which includes a new computer science class that will teach students how to program software for the iPhone … Continue reading
Make Every Mistake Conceivable to Man
It’s the WSX (Wharton Securities eXchange) time of year again for the Learning Lab! Each August around this time, we run the simulation with pre-term MBA students who want to learn about and experience what it would be like to … Continue reading
Posted in learning, simulations, technology
Also tagged marshall blume, simulation, wharton securities exchange, WSX
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Leadership Among Other Things…
Themes seem to cycle in my life like seasons sometimes and right now the theme is leadership. From testing a new leadership simulation designed by Forio to writing up a summary for one of the Learning Lab‘s own leadership applications … Continue reading
Posted in learning, simulations
Also tagged emotional intelligence, forio, leadership, simulations
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The Game (theory) of Life
Before I write this, I would like to throw out a disclaimer that I don’t understand the intricacies of the current financial situation and even after people explain to me the various definitions for subprime mortgages, and welfare states, and … Continue reading
Posted in contemporary society, simulations, systems, technology
Also tagged finance, financial crisis, game theory, simulations, technology
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The Evolution of Learning Symposium 2009
PART ONE – DAN PINK (check out the video here) There’s so much that I could write about the Evolution of Learning Symposium which is exactly why this blog has only begun to materialize two weeks after the event. The … Continue reading
Posted in conferences, contemporary society, creativity, education, learning, systems
Also tagged dan pink, education, evolution of learning, learning, systems, wharton
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Emotions, the East, and Comedians
I’ve been fortunate to sit in on several debriefs of Learning Lab applications over the past month of our OPEQ simulation and the new leadership simulation. To my surprise, although this may not be a recent phenomenon, I’ve been pleasantly … Continue reading
Posted in contemporary society, psychology, simulations
Also tagged daniel pink, eastern philosophy, simulations
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Germans, TUNA, and Oprah – Oh mY! (and an article)
What do Germans, Tuna, and Oprah have in common? Absolutely nothing! However, the Learning Lab ran the Tragedy of the Tuna simulation at the German MBA conference November 22 at Huntsman Hall – quite the conference hotspot these days. Professor … Continue reading
Posted in conferences, education, learning, simulations, technology
Also tagged daniel pink, eric ortz, German MBA conference 2008, learning and technology conference 2009, oprah, simulations, tragedy of the tuna
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Net Impact and Tegrity
Last Friday and Saturday, 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”. Instead of only … Continue reading
Posted in conferences, education, learning, simulations, technology, web 2.0, webinars
Also tagged campus technology, class capture, net impact, net impact conference, tegrity, university of pennsylvania, wharton, wharton stock exchange, WSX
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On Dogfooding and Learning/Technology Conferences
I love learning new words and this week’s pick is “dogfooding.” Let’s see what Wikipedia (2008) has to say about that: To say that a company “eats its own dog food” means that it uses the products that it makes. … Continue reading
Posted in conferences, learning, technology
Also tagged conference, conference planning, innovation toolkit, learning and technology conference, marketing, wharton, wharton computing
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