Upside Learning

JUNE 3, 2010

The published output is typically in the form of the video viewable over web as well as on desktop. Related posts: Rapid Authoring – Freeform Vs Template Based Top 25 Rapid eLearning Blog Posts IDC India – Games Vs Simulations.

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Upside Learning

JULY 11, 2023

Further, you know how to take PowerPoint decks and PDF documents, and put them up on the web with a quiz that people will pass. The post 5 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Do Microlearning first appeared on The Upside Learning Blog. You want to keep throwing courses at everything Let’s face it; you do what you do and you do it well.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

One of the travails of my paper writing (still continues) was that good web resources were quite hard to find, so be spared the ordeal, this is a good place to start. Marc Prensky Blog. Ulearning Blog. Mlearning Blog. Upside Learning Blog. Derek Bruff’s Blog. Ignatia Web. Apple Education. Kapp Notes.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 23, 2013

A good starting point is our blog post – 5 Rapid Authoring Tools to Publish Courses For Your iPads – where we talk about some of the authoring tools that can be used to develop HTML5 courses for iPads. HTML5 is being touted as the future of the mobile web and essential for any web-based mLearning – but is it really?

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Upside Learning

JULY 2, 2009

Those of you have heard of HTML 5 will know it’s a new version of HTML and XHTML being promoted by Google and Apple in a bid to move the web away from proprietary technologies like Flash, Silverlight and JavaFX. Canvas - Web developers can now create 2D drawings controlled by JavaScript. Or does it?

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Upside Learning

MAY 28, 2012

While I haven’t blogged in a while, I continue trawling through my RSS feeds, seeing more and more references to mobile learning, mlearning, performance support, ‘just-in-time’ and so many other terms that make sense in that context. Mobile Learning Blog To Follow. Ignatia Webs. At Last: Mobile Learning Goes Mainstream.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

MICRO-BLOGGING: Check if your LMS offers a Micro-blogging feature. The micro-blogging feature is a great way to build a network that can be used for varied types of learning. Integration with the Twitter web service will make it easy to share information across domains.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 28, 2010

we collated some good tutorials and blogs available freely on the web, and I thought it would be good to share that list. Mike Chamber’s blog. BIT-101 Blog. A few weeks back I wrote about the reasons for using ActionScript 3.0 [AS in Flash based eLearning development. While training our team on AS 3.0 TheFlashBlog.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 2, 2011

It’s been a trying time of the year; erratic schedules, vacations and finding time to introspect has meant I’ve not blogged over the last month or so. As I get back on track, it’s time to start blogging in earnest again. As mobile computing becomes mainstream, it is worth thinking about the nature of learning in the future.

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Upside Learning

JULY 5, 2023

An auditory component in a noisy environment may be wrong, just as a web solution in a network-free location isn’t going to work. The post Overcome These Common Challenges of Microlearning first appeared on The Upside Learning Blog. There are also the people issues. Who will be available to clarify any concerns or issues?

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Upside Learning

JUNE 24, 2009

When writing the whitepaper about Casual games , I did a fair bit of research and looked at several hundred web links. I’d been mulling posting these to the blog. Serious Games Blog. mLearn08: MiLK: students building mobile learning games in higher education by Debra Polson- Ignatia Webs, November 12, 2008.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 24, 2009

When writing the whitepaper about Casual games , I did a fair bit of research and looked at several hundred web links. I’d been mulling posting these to the blog. Serious Games Blog. mLearn08: MiLK: students building mobile learning games in higher education by Debra Polson- Ignatia Webs, November 12, 2008.

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 4, 2010

The big question is – Are you building web apps or native one? Sushil Kokate has discussed this here on our blog listing the benefits you get from choosing to go with either of them. The workshop session was focused on tools for creating web apps and compared three web app development frameworks viz.

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Upside Learning

MAY 5, 2010

With 29 new posts, April has been the most active month on our blog. Below are our Top 10 posts for the month, each accompanied by a quick brief: Top 13 LMS (and Learning Technology) Blogs. Lists top 13 blogs that we follow for LMS and learning technology. Top 25 Rapid eLearning Blog Posts. from around the web.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

The OpenClassroom Server (OCS) places the teacher in control of an easily managed local Web 2.0 It’s an HTML5 video player that will allow you to easily embed videos in any page, blog or site using the latest modern web standards. Download it now if you use either platform and get blogging in no time. environment.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

More information on how we might use it in elearning can be found in this post on our blog. A Web-based drawing tool, which outputs the drawing as PNG file. It seems a promising step towards a Flash-less web. Using Buzz you can connect to the other social media services like Twitter, Picasa, Flickr and Google reader. Sketchpad.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 21, 2010

Upside is doing a fair bit of mobile learning development and we blog about it regularly. Tools for Enterprise application like LMS, LCMS: Enterprise applications can be created as Native or Web based. In the process of development, we are often forced to explore the various tools available. Augmented Reality. Blackberry.

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Mobile Learning Mobile Tools Augmented Reality 252

Upside Learning

JUNE 4, 2009

It helps us create interactive and engaging web-based Learning Solutions. The design view allows us to see the results instantly, without having to use a web browser. Browser compatibility issues and validations are easily taken care of, and CSS integration offers a convenient way to ensure consistent appearance of web pages.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 1, 2010

Web 3.0 – The Semantic Web Video. Provides a succinct way to understand what Web 3.0 Lists top 30 blogs and websites that would help Instructional Designers would be interested in. is all about. The LMS – Will It Survive? Debates if a Learning Management System can actually be called a Learning Management System.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

This article from Grow Blog highlights some of the facts and figures in a new study of the Fortune 500’s adoption of blogging and Twitter as observed by The Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts. Read it here. New Research Puts Fortune 500 Social Media Usage On Display. Read it here. Storytelling 2.0:

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Social Networks Media Augmented Reality Technology 182

Upside Learning

MARCH 26, 2013

Just in case you are delivering web-based learning, poor network connectivity can pose some problem. 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. A: We don't believe so.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Using phones, they browse the web, connect on social networks, share photos and videos, make purchases, play games, and keep track of what they care for through dedicated apps. As learning technology evolves and semantic web comes around, learning and performance support through mobile devices is becoming common. Summing It Up.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 18, 2011

I came across a blog-post by Clark Aldrich titled – Using Serious Games and Simulations: A Quick and Dirty Guide. After reading the post, I browsed the web for examples of simulations that are capable of generating a powerful learning experience. Inside the Haiti Earthquake is PTV Productions’ first foray into web-based gaming.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 28, 2011

Along the way we’ve shared quite a few blog posts , a few SlideShare presentations , and a whitepaper about mobile learning. We realize most of what we discuss with prospects is on our blog already. In this context you’ll find these posts interesting: The Semantic Web cometh. Who will handle any needed user support?

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Once you viewed your data in desired visualization form you can integrate it in your website, blog or any web page. The Semantic Web cometh The Semantic Web Cometh – 2. Currently due to labs release, it supports up to 100MB per table, and up to 250MB per user. You can export your data as csv too.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2012

We’d like to share what we presented because it encapsulates technologies that will impact/affect the future of mobile learning and learning in general, readers of this blog will probably find it of special interest. The Semantic Web and Intelligent Agents. You can find our presentation here.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Which way to go – native apps, web apps, or HTML5. Some of these have been answered on our blog earlier and while some of them are as old as 2 years but I think they are still very helpful in understanding the domain of mobile learning. Which platforms / devices should be targeted. How to convert existing elearning to mlearning.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 10, 2010

Even as Apple and Adobe continue to fight over the ‘control’ of the web we hope the dust settles on this in the next 6-12 months. It would also be a great opportunity to meet in person with some of our blog readers. Till then we probably will do with videos for mobiles, apps for specific devices or simple html courses. See you there.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Wordpress – blogging tool. This skew is probably because the people who participate in this survey are those at the cutting edge of information technology tools and are also socially more active on the web. Delicious – social bookmarking tool. Slideshare – presentation hosting and sharing tool. Google Reader – RSS feed reader.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

I trawled through multiple blogs. The Tin Can API allows for several new capabilities that SCORM didn’t, such as: Taking e-learning outside of the web browser. How did I learn about the Tin Can API. I participated in discussion forums on Linkedin. I viewed quite a few You Tube videos. I viewed presentations on Slideshare.

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Upside Learning

MAY 3, 2012

Adobe Edge is a new web motion and interaction design tool that allows designers to bring animated content to websites, using web standards like HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3. Judy Unrein makes a very valid point in her blog post Publishes to HTML5 ? Upcoming Tools. Two other tools to watch out for are Adobe Edge and Magetta.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 30, 2013

Lectora enables you to automatically transform your eLearning to HTML5 for mobile delivery, and provides other publishing options including Web (HTML), mobile and tablet devices. It comes bundled with a suite of multimedia development tools and allows you to publish to the web, mobile and tablets and CD and DVDs if that’s what you need!

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 20, 2010

There is lots of material available about iPhone development on the web but very little about how to go about it. Knowledge of web services like Restful (for communication) and JSON for data interchange is an added plus. Upsidelearning Blog -Read series on IPhone-User interface guidelines 1-3. Time Required- 30 Person Days. #.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 22, 2010

As a general search on the web will reveal, there is quite a debate about multitasking and task switching. 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 11, 2011

100 Web Tools to Enhance Collaboration. Here’s a list of 100 web tools to enhance collaboration amongst us. 15 Fabulous Blogs Should Follow By Game Addictive. Collaboration tools let you create, edit, share, discuss, engage, communicate and collaborate with others in a meaningful way that helps us learn from each other.

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Blended Learning Technology Learning Technologies iPad 209

Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

This article on the Brandon Hall blog mentions new statistics on this new technology. Tim Berners-Lee: Facebook Could Fragment Web. Founder of the World Wide Web says that some of the most successful social networking sites ‘have begun to chip away at its principles’, reports this article on Guardian. Read it here.

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