The Center's Educational Uses

Department of Finance Courses: Undergraduate and graduate students taking investment classes use the Center's classroom to access financial information and explore financial models for analyzing market information.

Information Impact Management Classes: The Department of Management Science and Information Systems (MSIS) has an MBA concentration on information impact management in finance and students taking courses in that concentration use the financial data feeds and models available in the Center's classroom.

MBA Investment Fund, L.L.C.: MBA students in the UT Graduate School of Business analyze investments and manage their portfolio in the Center's Trading Room.

Innovative Classroom Pedagogy: Through its technologically-sophisticated classroom, faculty can adapt their pedagogy to the latest educational tools including an interactive touch screen blackboard (SMART Board), a WolfVision document camera, and a high-resolution video projector. The Video Guide for Educators provides a description for the video technology available in the Center.

Distance Learning: The Center can originate and receive long distance learning through its video conferencing capability and its access to satellite up and downlinks.

Executive Education: The Executive Education Program in the College and Graduate School of Business uses the Center's classroom for special executive training programs on campus and broadcasted to remote locations. The Center's sponsors are able to use the Center's facilities when university classes are not session (weekends and summers) to bring their executives up to date on the latest technology.

K-12 Education: The Center serves as a resource for the University of Texas in the application of educational technology as well as assisting the University's Institute for Technology and Learning (ITAL). It also serves as a technical lab for the Business Leadership Program and the Accounting Career Awareness Camp in the area of business education.