Upside Learning

MAY 17, 2021

In this chat, Jeevan quotes the gamification of processes or everyday activities to encourage skill development is of more interest to me […]. In this fifth episode of Gamification of Learning, Amit Garg, Founder & CEO of Upside Learning Solutions talks to Jeevan Joshi Digital HR Practitioner & Advisor Wisely Group.

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Upside Learning

MAY 17, 2021

In this chat, Jeevan quotes the gamification of processes or everyday activities to encourage skill development is of more interest to me […]. In this fifth episode of Gamification of Learning, Amit Garg, Founder & CEO of Upside Learning Solutions talks to Jeevan Joshi Digital HR Practitioner & Advisor Wisely Group.

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Upside Learning

MAY 3, 2023

Act with awareness – Focus on how attentive we are as we go about our activities. Listen actively, be open-minded, and respond thoughtfully. It has 4 key measures: Observe – What’s happening at the moment? Describe – Describe and act based on observation.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

CLO is a respected forum worldwide and it is exciting to see them initiate activities in India. Upside Learning is happy to be associated with the inaugural CLO Summit India. The event scheduled for Nov 20th in Mumbai will focus on how organizational learning can impact business. So what can you expect?

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Upside Learning

MAY 26, 2023

The night included not just music and food, but also enjoyable activities for the youngsters. The children had a great time playing the specially designed activities. It was a visual delight to see the brilliant colors and diverse designs on show, making for the perfect photo-op.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

For most organizations, eLearning outsourcing is a strategic activity and hence other factors like ‘expertise in the ever-changing tools & technologies landscape’, ‘faster times […]. However, with the change in the eLearning outsourcing landscape cost is just one aspect when it comes to eLearning outsourcing now.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 7, 2023

Our thinking is based upon patterns of activation across the myriad of neurons that constitute our brain. When we learn, we’re strengthening the connections within those active patterns (which are frequently two patterns newly put into conjunction). Learning, in our brains, is really the strengthening of neural connections.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 8, 2024

There’s always a tremendous amount of activity at the year’s end to think about what the coming year will bring. Learning Science One of the areas we actively investigate, and apply, is learning science. There is data, some relatively objective, other less so. Yet, it’s also been said “Never predict anything, particularly the future”.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 8, 2024

There’s always a tremendous amount of activity at the year’s end to think about what the coming year will bring. Learning Science One of the areas we actively investigate, and apply, is learning science. There is data, some relatively objective, other less so. Yet, it’s also been said “Never predict anything, particularly the future”.

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Upside Learning

MAY 28, 2010

This quarter, our Social Welfare Group embarked upon its first activity: a blood donation camp, conducted in association with Ruby Hall Clinic’s Blood Bank. The activity had the full support of the management team and seniors in all domains who made sure that the day’s training schedules were designed so as to accommodate donor batches.

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Upside Learning

JULY 24, 2023

Traditional eLearning nuggets also played a role, as did actual contextual activities. Posters with QR codes triggered initial awareness, along with animated videos. Interactives helped generate awareness and developed learner abilities.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 3, 2014

A common thread I've noticed is there is a lot of initial excitement/activity during the mobile app roll out period the first few months. One of the things I always like doing is talking to our customers about 6 months after our mobile performance support tool (Upside2Go) has been implemented in their organization. Yet as […].

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Upside Learning

JULY 1, 2019

Compliance training can be a daunting activity for an organization. While compliance training initiatives are essential to help protect organizations from the risk of non-compliance, employees often view them as tedious and boring.

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 6, 2013

Tablets are no longer limited to entertainment purposes like watching video or playing games; but now are a part of organizational L&D activities across businesses large and small. We truly believe tablets are a game changer and that there is strong merit in delivering eLearning on tablets. eLearning Technology Mobile Learning'

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Upside Learning

MAY 25, 2016

Are you a small- or medium-sized business looking at investing in a Learning Management System to manage your learning/training activities? If your answer is positive, you know just too well how buying one, with your limited budget and resources, is a big deal. To be able to leverage the LMS to the fullest and justify […].

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Moreover, since these activities are outside the traditional elearning environment, L&D professionals are unable to record these learning activities and measure their impact on performance. What is the Tin Can API? It’s great for tracking: Mobile Learning. Serious Games. Simulations. Informal Learning. Real World Performance.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Today’s Learning Management Systems are capable of much more than merely managing day-to-day training activities and keeping a record of ‘who did what and when’ The advent of social media and social learning is having a considerable impact on the process of organisational training […].

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The business of a Training Company is complex; from running multiple training programs to selling training materials online, it has host of activities to do as a part of its day-to-day functioning. What it needs is an online system that not only simplifies the management of these activities but also helps it grow its business. […].

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Bjork directly point to the need for mixing activities and creating a level of difficulty. Most elearning courses sorely lack this varied mix of activities and challenge. We must consider how we can add those to courseware that must cater to a wide demographic.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 25, 2013

The LMSs today are not restricted to merely conducting and managing the day-to-day organizational training activities, but embrace a much larger role. But unfortunately not many organizations are leveraging these platforms to their optimum. This is mainly due to the lack of understanding of the many features they now offer.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Mainly that learning is such an organic activity that trying to define it in any way will be inadequate. Embedded in activities – While learning to play LBP it is nice how the learning is embedded into the environment and the game play activity. Watching him learn to play and master the game has been quite a revelation.

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Upside Learning

MAY 28, 2010

Given that it doesn’t even have features to upload documents to activities or sessions, it looks a little amateurish for the kind of potential a system like this could have. To some relief (I would be wary of Google as a competitor ), CloudCourse is still a very primary interface for scheduling of training activities.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Agents in the ecosystem compete for resources actively; they look for and consume/assimilate objects of value. They must use resources from the network and specialized abilities (in nature, producing sugars or proteins) to generate these objects. – Agents participate in the ecosystem; some do it actively, some passively.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Ironically, while employees need more time for learning in order to optimize their productivity, they actually have less time to participate in formal learning activities. The Challenge. A vast majority of the global workforce is very busy and has very little time to focus on learning. Here’s what Mobile Learning can be used for.

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Upside Learning

MAY 3, 2012

As per data published by Good Technology in their Good Technology Device Activations Report | Q1 2012 , the iPad 2 averaged 17.7 percent of their enterprise activations in the first quarter of 2012 in the US. percent of Good Technology’s enterprise activations. In just a month since its release, the iPad 3 snagged 4.3

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

There is a new emphasis in the classroom on more challenge-based and active learning. New modes of scholarship are presenting significant challenges for libraries and university collections, how scholarship is documented, and the business models to support these activities. Mobile Apps. Tablet Computing. Game-Based Learning.

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 28, 2012

MobiMOOC2012 will be a forum of various learning activities intended for interactive exchange of information, knowledge, latest technical developments in mobile learning. Mobile activism & education. A quick overview of MobiMOOC 2012. Adele Botha ( @adele_b ). Week 3: 23 – 29 September 2012. FACILITATOR. Augmented mLearning.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

And rightly so, as they cater to a distinctive client base that is a mix of retail and corporate; run multiple training programs; sell training materials online; and perform a host of other activities as a part of their day-to-day functioning. All […].

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Swarming is a work style characterized by a flurry of collective activity by anyone and everyone conceivably available and able to add value. Spontaneity implies more than reactive activity, for example, to the emergence of new patterns. Work swarms. This property is also implied in Gartner’s description of work swarms.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

It was an effort that saw a different type of team activity. Here is a time-lapse video of the activity. There was no theme, no predetermined style, only the artist’s imagination at work. Much enjoyed by all, those who participated, and those who walk past the huge painting each morning and are reminded to the talent we have.

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Upside Learning

JULY 30, 2023

You want to identify the right sequence of activities, and the right spacing, to generate both the appropriate retention and transfer. How-tos, whether video or static, similarly have their own design principles. Alternatively, for spaced learning, just taking apart an existing course isn’t likely to yield the necessary outcomes.

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Upside Learning

MAY 25, 2010

Write activities in which a character faces a realistic scenario. Let the activities, not the content, drive the design. The essence of what she says in these videos about doing eLearning on budget is: 1. Don’t create a course until it is really necessary and useful. Put the information outside the course.

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Upside Learning

MAY 17, 2012

Proofreading eLearning content such as a storyboard, a blog-post or any other document, needs time like any other activity. This seemingly simple activity will help you add suitable punctuations where you pause, replace tongue-twisters or heavy content with simple words, and get the flow right. Invest Time.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 23, 2013

Maintenance Activities with Wearable Computers as Training and Performance Aids, by David Liu, The University of Queensland ( PDF automatic download ). Then there will be devices watching your activities in real-time ( devices like Nike Fuel ). I think there are three reasons we shouldn’t ignore wearable technology for learning-.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The choices of action should be plausible and be active. It doesn’t have to be the exact same situation they’ll be in, but they should recognize that it’s a legitimate application, even in a fantastic setting. That is, it’s not identifying the choices, but making one. This serves two purposes.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Mobile Learning is being loosely attributed to any learning activity that is not location bound, which is very surprising! With more enterprises and staff using tablets for business related activities, and rapid growth in enterprise mobility, it is only a matter of time before Users demand their eLearning on tablets. The growing need.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 11, 2012

This tool has a very good feature (HTML5 tracker) for highlighting activities that are not supported on tablets. You can easily identify unsupported activities and replace them with functionality that is supported.

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