Upside Learning

APRIL 4, 2024

What are the budget and tool resources available? Organizations that are merely tracking audiences served by the number of employees, costs or time to develop courses, and similar, are only looking at efficiency, not effectiveness. Impact is about the latter! It’s also reflective of your capability.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 19, 2011

With L&D budgets still shrinking this does not come as a surprise. I think though reduced budgets have an impact on this – it is also because of the changing nature of work, training, and learning. Informal Learning. Management Development Programmes. Coaching & Mentoring. Bite Size Sessions. More eLearning, mobile learning.

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Upside Learning

JULY 14, 2016

A pertinent question in regards to LMS selection and buying for SMBs is – How to select the right LMS that fits our requirements and budget? And rightly so.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Know the budget and timelines and tailor your game design around it. Otherwise, as time goes by, you keep reducing the feature set to match the timeline/budget and end up with a game that looks nothing like what you pitched to the stakeholders as a designer. Which almost invariably leads to disappointed stakeholders.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Reining in detail is cognitively good, and good on the budget as well. Allow our knowledge of how the world works, such as office events, to fill in the gaps instead of conveying all the details. Just as a good book or movie doesn’t tell you everything, let the action do so as well.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Tags: Humor Budget eLearning Custom eLearning eLearning eLearning Development.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

When we’re framing the business, learning, and performance goals, we should keep in mind the following consideration: Constraints: Are there any scope, budget, or resource constraints that get stretched with the framing of the goals and metrics?

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

These seem spot on as ‘actual development’ costs and can serve as a good metric when budgeting for your next Elearning project. Slide 29 puts it all in perspective, Elearning development costs per hour range between 10,000 USD at the lower end for basic courseware, and up to 50,000 USD at the high end.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 5, 2012

Chief barriers to adopting mobile learning include budget, integration with legacy systems, and security. The key findings in the report are: Less than one third organizations deliver learning content via mobile device, despite its high correlation with both the Learning Education Index and Market Performance Index.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 6, 2010

It is certainly possible to work with limited budgets and still create good eLearning. You just need to know which areas to spend the scanty budgets you have. Not necessary to show a 3D simulation for negotiation skills. The solution needs to engage the mind, encourage reflection, and induce behavior change.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

It can be a story, game, interactivity, or anything else that we deem fit or suits the audience, as also the requirements, budget, and other constraints of the project. We will need to determine how you want to treat this experience. Depending on the treatment we choose, we will need to move to production accordingly.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

The Saudi Government remains the major contributor to the development of the country’s higher education infrastructure and is continuously raising the budget to be spent on the education sector. Last year, the Saudi Government had allocated $40 Billion (SR 150 billion) in its 2011 Budget to education and training.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 30, 2010

We take immense pride in meeting project deadlines and delivering courses within budgets; however, somewhere in our quest to showcase our potential, we may have forgotten about the core objective — Delivering Knowledge. Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? — That’s a pertinent question that we need to ask ourselves.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Their clients have slashed travel budgets, while managers in client organizations are not willing to let their employees go for training - as they are already managing with less manpower. It gives them the flexibility to customize programs to suit their clients’ budgets and time availability.

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Upside Learning

JULY 19, 2012

Provide Enough Information: A Vendors needs to know more about a company’s e-learning problem, technological infrastructure, and proposed budget, along with other challenges, if any. However, if each vendor knows a budget range, then they will all propose a solution within that budget and you can more easily compare the proposals.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

It was commonplace to find training budgets be the first ones to slashed when downturn hits. Not just because it means constant business for us but also because it means the top bosses recognize the importance of workplace learning more that they did a couple of decades back.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This session tackled common compliance training issues like budget constraints and employee resistance. Effective Compliance Training In our journey this year, another highlight was our campaign on effective compliance training. Clark delivered a webinar on Delivering Compliance Training that Works.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 20, 2010

To simplify the implication –choose one of the lines on the graph and settle at the multimedia level your development budgets allow. First select a Type of solution that suits the performance outcomes and learning objectives, and then impose cost constraints on it.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 23, 2010

These pressures led organizations to react in varied ways – downsizing, rightsizing, blanket budget cuts, even training cost cutting, across the board salary revisions, etc. Tremendous pressures were put on companies to save on costs (and continue even now, while a little milder) and more so to generate more value at the same cost.

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Upside Learning

MAY 18, 2009

Roughly 50% of respondents expected their training budget to stay more or less the same; about a quarter expected it to decrease; and another quarter expected it to increase. •. 62% responded that overall enterprise learning budgets have fallen either moderately or substantially. •.

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Upside Learning

MAY 4, 2010

It’s interesting to see that they were still able to develop a engaging interaction while obviously doing so on a budget. So they adopted a ’second best’ approach – the use of comics. I’m making a simple point really – ‘engaging’ elearning is not about media choice.

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Upside Learning

MAY 7, 2009

Learning and Development (L&D) budgets are often among the first to experience cuts, as organizations tend to focus on ‘core’ production areas. If L&D budgets are slashed, how will employees be trained to work effectively and efficiently as per these changes?

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Budgets for training have increased over last 2 years despite a recessionary trend and are likely to continue to increase. Barriers to learning technologies adoption in the sector is still the ICT infrastructure and access. Proportion allocated to learning technologies is also expected to increase.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 19, 2011

Wearing the Black Hat – We then did a thorough risk assessment considering project timelines, budgets, scope of development and documented our observations. We raised a flag right away and asked the client for additional information. That helped us realize that the approach that we had in mind was not feasible.

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Upside Learning

MAY 20, 2011

Frederic Domon reconsiders the great paradox of training: higher budgets being allocated to classical training and major chunk of learning taking place through social learning. This article examines how we might overcome the cultural barriers to the adoption of eLearning. Learning Formally or Informally…? Why not Both!

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 10, 2011

Off-the-cuff, I think there are some definite reasons this is happening: System cost/cost of development – It isn’t budget friendly to implement a ‘behind the firewall’ system that allows for collaborative 3D. Why then is there such a gap between technology development and adoption by the L&D community?

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Most importantly, adhering to your time and budget expectations. Considering the above-mentioned two critical factors may help you pick a suitable LMS that will provide an engaging and effective learning experience, leading to enhanced performances by your learners.

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 4, 2009

Corporate training budgets have been slashed and travel expenditure has been cut. The lower costs of eLearning, the foreseeable ubiquity of mLearning, the promise of Social Learning, are all forcing a major reshuffle in focus (and budgets) in corporate training. The pressure on reducing costs has never been greater.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 29, 2010

Some take away from my trip: Most large companies have budgets for eLearning. With them I had an opportunity to meet clients in varied domains – Banking, Utilities, Energy, Healthcare & Telecom. I must say I am pleasantly surprised at the potential for workplace eLearning in Saudi Arabia.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 22, 2011

Whatever your philosophy regarding frontal teaching methods and the uses of Smartboards, there’s no denying two facts: Smartboards have become extremely popular tools in educational institutions & are relatively expensive and eat major portions out of our shrinking school budgets. Read to know the answer. QR Codes In Education.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 30, 2013

This entails a ready opportunity to leverage the existing technology at hand for learning without spending surplus budget on setting the basic infrastructure. With digitization of the work processes and workplaces, today almost every employee is equipped with a desktop or laptop (even both, sometimes) and a mobile phone (of course!)

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Upside Learning

MARCH 31, 2010

I especially like the articles that give perspectives about driving projects creatively, yet being able to manage the development process well enough to deliver a refined product on time and within budget. These are constraints we see commonly in the learning industry. Related posts: What are Serious Games?

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Online courses are on the rise as firms continue to cut training budgets and the newly redundant update their skill sets. Read this to know why the learning road for training professionals is still a long one. The Secret To eLearning. This post reveals some secret formulas for effective eLearning.

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 12, 2009

When the economy rebounds – some think it has already started taking a U-turn – training budgets would bounce back and eLearning would be in demand. This presents an opportunity for Training Companies to get online before the growth phase kicks-in. You need to be ready.

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 22, 2012

Q 19 a: This presentation sounds as if it is targeted at large organisations with big budgets with established L&D depts. Q 18: Would you start with 1 specific theme or with e.g. an generic topic or soft skills related ? A: Please see our response to Q 7 above.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2009

With this, there is no need to invest time and budget to build quick small models to be used in various projects. I am sure, the model data then can be manipulated and refined by 3D software like 3DS Max. Silverlight for IPhone.

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Upside Learning

JULY 14, 2009

There are many issues to be considered – culture, audience profile, real business need, budgets, and time. It recommends starting with casual games and then gradually moving up to more complex/serious ones. You can download the award winning whitepaper here.

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