This document provides information about the STL Lab's summer camp program, including potential partner schools, a timeline of training sessions, and an outline of the sessions. The program includes 4 weekly sessions in March focusing on:
1. The educational real estate game being developed to simulate the Chinese market.
2. Understanding and discussing the real estate business, entrepreneurship, and urbanization in China through test playing the game.
3. Selected topics from issues that arise from game play, including structures of real estate investment and Chinese entrepreneurship.
The sessions are led by instructors from MIT and include founding explanations of the STL Lab in the first session and test playing and understanding the game in subsequent sessions.
4. STL Lab | Potential Schools
Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Province of Inner Mongolia
Chongqing University, Chongqing
Zhun Yi Normal College, Province of Guizhou
Qinghai Normal University, Xining, Qinghai Province
Hongkong Vocational Training School
One high school in Shanghai, Shanghai
*This is a tentative school list, final list should be confirmed by February
22. TIMELINE
*This is a first draft, and time may
change because of availability of the
instructors.
March 1st
March 8th
March 15th
March 29th
STL Training Sessions | Summer Camp Program Outline
23. Four weekly sessions to
start March 1st, focusing
on:
1. The educational real
estate game to be played
in China
2. Related information
and discussion on real
estate business,
entrepreneurship and
urbanization in China.
FRAMEWORKSTL Training Sessions | Play-Learn-Teach Framework
24. Key Issues:
• What is the STL
Lab?
• What is its
mission?
• What are some of
the major concerns
of the Lab?
• What has the Lab
done to achieve its
goals?
Topic:
STL and the Mission
of the STL Lab
Instructor:
Dr. Hong (DUSP)
Prof. Saiz (CRE)
Date:
March 1st
Time:
90 min. session
SESSION 1
Founding of the STL Lab
STL Training Sessions | Session 1: Overview
25. SESSION 2 & 3
Key Issues:
• How does the
game play?
• How does every
element connect
to the real estate
business (in
China)?
• What do we
want to convey
the most?
• Questions and
discussions on
these issues.
Topic:
Test-playing &
understanding
Instructor:
Rik Eberhardt
(Game Lab/CMS)
Prof. Geltner
(CRE)
Dates:
March 8th
March 15th
Time:
90 min. sessions
The game, being developed since September 2015, has
gone through many test-plays already, and currently is
available in a tablet digital prototype.
STL Training Sessions | Sessions 2 + 3: Test Play
26. SESSION 4
Potential Key Issues:
• Structure of real
estate investment
• Social
responsibility in
development and
industry
• Chinese real
estate
entrepreneurship
• Urbanization
• Urban
externalities
• …?
Topic:
Selected based on
game play, in-
depth lecture and
discussion on
topic of interest
identified by the
participants
Instructor:
TBD
Date:
March 29th
Topic TBD during
spring break
Time:
90 min. session
STL Training Sessions | Session 4: On Demand Content