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...
View ArticleNet 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...
View ArticleGermans, 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...
View ArticleEmotions, 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleLeadership 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...
View ArticleMake 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...
View ArticleMGMT 652 Leadership Simulation: A Story about Potential
I occasionally post to the Penn Engaging Students through Technology blog which has a host of talented bloggers capturing their experiences with technology at the University of Pennsylvania. If you are...
View ArticleTrend 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...
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