The remote launching code. Second-year graduate business students at Penn State University bid for class slots online thanks to a system developed by two professors. It gives everyone an equal chance. The system notifies students if they were outbid after an initial round.
Students can modify bids in succeeding rounds.
It evens out access to classes as well as providing a lesson in online auctions, said Rocki-Lee DeWitt, associate dean. The University of Chicago MBA program uses an auction system but it is manual. Like Myrter, students coveting a particular class generally bid more points on it during the first round. To return to quote unquote click here.