Wireless Classroom & Economic Games

   Project Leader:
   Date Started:
Spring 2001
   Category:
Teaching
   Web Address:
http://sentry.cwru.edu/MEL
   Project Status:
In development 
   Funding:
Cleveland Foundation  
   Documentation: Proposal
   

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Description:

The Mobile Experiments Lab (MEL) is a wireless-network laptop lab where economics students can work on economics games, exercises, software, and data. Consisting of 50 laptops and two servers, the MEL lab is available by reservation for students to work on interactive economics software, or by professors and/or teaching assistants who wish to develop software or to perform research.

An online MEL archive documents MEL lab operations and there is a proposed plan to add a MEL online reservations system to replace the current manual process of reserving MEL. Finally, to document the project, a video is in the works to showcase MEL and discusses the implications of the project.