Upside Learning

APRIL 18, 2023

The paper argues that the underlying ideas that lead to the value of microlearning are worthy of attention, but the nuances are important. The post A New Position Paper on Microlearning first appeared on The Upside Learning Blog.

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Upside Learning

MAY 3, 2023

In this blog, we will explore what it means to be a mindful project manager and a few tips on how to become one. Increased Creativity: Mindfulness can help project managers tap into their creativity, which can be particularly useful when problem-solving or generating new ideas. Project management can be a challenging and stressful job.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 11, 2023

Asking SMEs to create courses themselves using an ‘easy’ authoring tool sounds like a great idea, but it isn’t. first appeared on The Upside Learning Blog. Some SMEs are certainly exceptions, but that is what they are exceptions. References: [link] [link] [link] The post Should SMEs Create eLearning Courses?

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Upside Learning

JULY 24, 2023

The ideas need to be reactivated regularly, and strengthened, to create persistent change. The post Microlearning Case Study: Spaced Learning first appeared on The Upside Learning Blog. All learning initiatives are changes, and so people need to initially buy into the change, and then be supported through it.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The idea of starting with a measurement in the organization – KPI, OKR, etc – is, in practice, harder to implement. The post Measurement for Learning Impact first appeared on The Upside Learning Blog. Finally, that drives the design of an intervention to achieve the behavior change. Here, we’re considering job aids and training.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2010

This article has a great list of sites including blogs, curriculum resources, play and video games for children. 10 Books Of Visual Ideas. Top 10 “Big Ideas” In Education. There are hundreds of ideas on ways to improve our education system and produce happier, more successful adults in future generations. Read it here.

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Upside Learning

JULY 4, 2013

In his book, Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization (Wiley, 2013), Dan Pontefract defines ‘Pervasive Learning’ as: “learning at the speed of need through formal, informal and social learning modalities” (I got the above definition from Dan’s blog, the book is still on my ‘to read’ list.)

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2023

That said, an AI might be a good thinking partner, providing ideas for settings and random events, as long as the results are supervised. The post Scenario-Based Learning Acronyms: From MCQ to AI first appeared on The Upside Learning Blog. ” Don’t miss out on the opportunity to unlock the power of scenario-based learning.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 20, 2011

www.elearninglearning.com – eLearning Learning is a collection of blog posts and articles all around eLearning. www.jarche.com – Harold Jarche’s blog is a great place to get introduced to ‘Informal Learning’. www.jarche.com – Harold Jarche’s blog is a great place to get introduced to ‘Informal Learning’.

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Upside Learning

MAY 17, 2012

In an earlier blog post, I wrote about how eLearning proofreading can sometimes get tricky. Proofreading eLearning content such as a storyboard, a blog-post or any other document, needs time like any other activity. And you add value by investing time not only on writing blog posts, but also proofreading them. Invest Time.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 31, 2013

We have been talking a lot about iPads (by iPads we also imply other ‘tablets’) on our blog for the past couple of weeks. And it’s for a reason. We also shared a list of tools that can help you in both these endeavors.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

As a learning organization, we understand the importance of keeping our ears and minds open to new knowledge and ideas. And with our blog, this had been more possible than ever. Over the period of 21 months, since the inception of our blog, we have not just shared our knowledge, but have gained much more in return.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Welcome to our new look blog! If you have been a regular reader of our blog, you would have noticed that we’ve changed our identity! It symbolizes the dawning of new ideas, the treading of new grounds and domains, the strengthening of innovation, and the renewed focus on products and services.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 29, 2013

They are being told in books, on TV shows, on blogs, on YouTube and in varied forms, they are probably being swapped in your workplace too. Rather they are always a representation of that, and as such are a very rich means for accessing inner truths – those ideas, beliefs, and commitments that an individual holds dear.”.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 24, 2009

I’d been mulling posting these to the blog. If you are contemplating beginning – it might help to look at links that interest you to get some grounding ideas. Serious Games Blog. Using computer games in education- ThirdForce Blog, January 30, 2009. The Learning Circuits Blog, October 13, 2007. Apple Learning Games.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 24, 2009

I’d been mulling posting these to the blog. If you are contemplating beginning – it might help to look at links that interest you to get some grounding ideas. Serious Games Blog. Using computer games in education- ThirdForce Blog, January 30, 2009. The Learning Circuits Blog, October 13, 2007. Apple Learning Games.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 8, 2010

People can share their ideas/thoughts and get to know differing points of views. It usually generates a large repository of ideas, opinions and links. Qualcomm – here is a case study [slide share presentation] on how Qualcomm has used Micro-blogging for learning –. A Case Study of Micro-Blogging for Learning at Qualcomm.

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Upside Learning

MAY 9, 2011

Mobile Learning seemed to be the flavor of the past month at our blogging stable. It encourages the development of the ability to create or generate ideas, having implications on how you structure your thoughts and activities that involve work and play. Learning Creativity and About Creativity From Lego.

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Upside Learning

JULY 24, 2012

Regular readers of this blog will be aware that we recently supported ASTD research on Mobile Learning , a report around that was released in May 2012. They made some very interesting points during the webinar which resonated with what we’ve been sharing on this blog. ASTD conducted a free webinar on that research report this week.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 12, 2011

This blog post uncovers 10 truths (with research validated reasons) on how video games can assist learning. CISCO has an amazingly innovative culture that allows them to experiment with new technologies and ideas around learning. This is because today the learners, the teachers and the game designs are different. And Its A GAME!

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Students also regularly use digital media like blogs, Skype and a custom-made social networking site to create projects and share their ideas with their classmates.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Each of these games is free and can be easily (and legally) embedded into any blog or website. They may seem childish but have tremendous potential in terms of ideas for some mind-blowing simulation projects. Though these games aren’t complex science games, they still require a basic knowledge of concepts such as gravity and force.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 6, 2009

Leigh Duncan- Durst’s blog gives an interesting categorization of the users of social media. Leigh’s suggestion is to look at people’s engagement with social media as a continuum, in evolving stages, which gives a clearer idea of the expertise that one can expect. Leigh summarizes her idea with a really neat graphic: Source: [link].

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Upside Learning

MARCH 5, 2010

How to keep High Performers – Marshall Goldsmith in the Harvard Business Review Blog writes about steps that organizations can take to help them retain high-impact performers. As a concept test, this add-in is not supported, but is an opportunity for you to try out an idea we are working on and let us know what you think.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 22, 2010

Either way, the idea is to identify correctly to get a point, click the wrong word you lose a point. Related posts: The Big Question – What I Learned About Learning in 2009 eLearning: Top Posts of 2009 – Upside Learning Blog eLearning: Interesting Weekly Finds #5. Hope you find it interesting.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 24, 2023

Hook & Land In my previous blog , I covered the first big idea of Action-Reflection from Clark Quinn’s book. Now, I want to delve deeper into the next crucial idea: “Hook & Land.” I’ve summarized Clark’s main ideas, but haven’t covered every single concept from his book.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 26, 2013

A: Reading this blog post – The Four Stages of Mobile Maturity – might help you to find how most organizations move on an evolutionary path as they mature in their adoption of mobile learning. Featured Blog Posts. eLearning on iPads – 10 Bright Ideas. Is it possible to send us a list of the developing tools?

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Upside Learning

APRIL 1, 2010

Among the experiences they shared I liked the idea of ‘jamming’ – which I understood as ‘uninhibited experimentation’ – trying to get together to try to do new things without fear of failure. To get an idea of how the game worked here is something I picked up from the game website. The highlight for me was Matt Mason.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2010

I’m taking the liberty to reproduce those as they’ll interest the readers of this blog. It’d be wonderful if more of our customers read this book, they’d have a great idea about what mobile technology could possibly do for them. There are a whole range of resources in the book that add value as well.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 13, 2012

Through the LMS’s collaborative capabilities such as discussion boards, forums, wikis, blogs and chat, learners can continue to share relevant ideas and materials, and continue to learn from each other. More often than not, learners continue to interact, discuss and debate on the topic learnt long after the ILT session is over.

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 31, 2010

John Hegel lll and John Seely Brown have written an article titled ‘ Six Fundamental Shifts in the Way We Work ’ on HBR blog. The article summarizes the ideas from their new book – The Power of Pull. However as it turns out we are running ever faster but still losing ground.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

We have discussed the 7 key components of the LMS switching process earlier on our blog. To get a complete idea of this process I urge you to download our recently published eBook – LMS Switching Guide. Upgrades & Support Services. Each of the aforementioned factors is critical for LMS switching.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Karl Kapp puts some alternatives to Second Life on his blog. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively. Alternatives to Second Life. Windows Mobile for Gaming.

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Upside Learning

JULY 28, 2009

Last month Tony Karrer posted this interesting piece on the Business of Learning on his blog – eLearning Technology. There was a special focus on ideas/solutions that could help Training Companies sell more. It provoked a discussion on the topic with many different perspectives brought to bear.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 19, 2023

In his latest book, Make It Meaningful, Clark Quinn mentions several ideas that aim to transform the way we design for learning. The book has a lot packed in its 133 pages, and writing and building on these concepts is my way of thinking through these ideas. This would be my only bone to pick with Clark.

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Upside Learning

MAY 28, 2009

There’s more talk about Digital natives going around; Jeremiah Owyang blogged from the Corporate Social Networking Conference in Amsterdam. On the other hand Janet Clarey takes on the idea of digital natives and millenials but in a rather different way and in reference to another article in ASTDs T+D magazine.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 8, 2011

Here are handouts, lesson plans, worksheets, websites, blogs, wikis, forums and nings in digital storytelling that you need for teaching & learning. The Idea Economy Requires Digital Learning Now. Learning is the entry ticket to the idea economy. Working With Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). Is Mobile Affecting When We Read?

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