Upside Learning

MARCH 29, 2012

I spent a lot of time over the past few months reading about the design of timelines and trying to understand what makes a well designed timeline. I soon realized that I had only discovered the tip of the iceberg, and that there is a lot of thought that needs to go into designing an interactive timeline. This blog-post is an attempt to put together what I learnt about the design of timelines.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 21, 2012

For us at Upside Learning, learning and innovation have been and continue to be the key drivers for our working and success. This is one of the main reasons for the robust investments we have made in training – not just for our employees but for the global community at large. Talking about training, our first webinar for 2012 is just around the corner.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 22, 2012

The other day, a colleague came up to me and asked me the how the word “sam-ma-ree” is spelt, which didn’t leave me surprised, floored, dumbfounded, or any of those adjectives. What was entertaining though, in an otherwise mundane day, was the bemused look on his face. A storyboard was about to be sent to the client, and he had noticed what he thought was weird magical performance rendered by the standard spellchecker in the MS Word document.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 5, 2012

Hidden amongst the hundreds of links, in the many posts, of many feeds, was this great blog post by Judy Unrein – Catering to Interaction Preferences Instead. Recommend all learning designers read this post. What she is pointing to is quite simply that just like there are possibly learning style preferences, there are also interaction style preferences.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 26, 2012

Earlier this year Rob Hubbard chair of the eLearning Network launched a campaign for effective elearning at the Learning Technology 2012. With so much of mindless elearning being created around us everyday this is a welcome initiative. Here’s a video by Rob Hubbard explaining the campaign. I loved the analogy of a compromise elearning course with a ‘hybrid car’, it drives (no pun intended) the point home quite well for buyers who simply don’t understand what good elearnin

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