Classroom Technology
Designed for Innovative Learning
Wharton's classrooms are designed for flexibility and innovation – compatible with the diverse teaching styles and ongoing curriculum developments at Wharton – as well as to stay ahead of advancing technologies.
Faculty members can lecture, lead interactive case discussions, or take advantage of the classrooms' 360-degree swivel seating for impromptu in-class breakout sessions.
They can launch multimedia learning simulations or videoconference with classes at Wharton's west coast campus in San Francisco or guest speakers from around the world. With the press of a button, they can record and post sessions in the Wharton Media Network, Wharton's video archive, for online access by students.
Wharton Classroom features include:
- Video cameras for conferencing and recording; archiving of classroom sessions
- Custom-designed Wharton Lectern with touch-screen technology controls
- Dual video screens with projection equipment
- Sliding blackboards
- Lighting controls, including a choice of filtering or blackout window shades
- Tiered classrooms with front entrance and wide aisles to maximize faculty-student interaction
- Tiers created with risers, so future reconfiguration is possible
- 360-degree swivel seats for student-to-student dialogue and in-class breakout groups
- Special links to "sibling rooms" at Wharton West in San Francisco and Wharton's allied institution INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France and Singapore
- Archived sessions available to students, faculty, and alumni over the Internet through the Wharton Media Network, easily accessed on the intranet portal SPIKE
For More Information
- About Wharton Classrooms (from Huntsman Hall Virtual Tour): http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/huntsmanhall/tour/05tiered_classrooms1.html
- Wharton Classroom and Lab Technology web site: http://publictechnology.wharton.upenn.edu/
