Upside Learning

JANUARY 19, 2011

I spent most of my free time over the last few weeks reading Edward de Bono’s book, Six Thinking Hats , and thinking about how this thinking process can be applied to Instructional Design. Instructional Design and the Six Thinking Hats. Yellow Hat Thinking: Values and benefits. Why something may work. The White Hat.

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Upside Learning

MAY 20, 2010

On the one hand, you are continuously learning about different work environments as you are called upon to resolve different performance issues. As an instructional designer, you start by learning a whole lot of theories and models. Not every qualified instructional designer is able to create great learning experiences.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 28, 2015

So we asked our team of instructional designers what they thought. Somehow or the other, this question cropped up in the course of a conversation recently. And here’s what they came up with – in no particular order, as they say: Focuses on learners.

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Upside Learning

JULY 8, 2010

We’ve had some new instructional designers join Upside Learning recently. While they’ve been assigned to work on projects on one hand, they’re also required to hit the ground running when it comes to media design. Note the absence of instructional design theory is deliberate. Media Design. Principles.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

MBA, a distinguished consultant, speaker, researcher, and founder of Work-Learning Research, shares his extensive expertise in instructional design, training, and consulting. Key Takeaways: Learning Evaluation: Discusses the Learning Transfer Evaluation Model for continuous improvement. Will, Ph.D.,

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Upside Learning

MAY 21, 2010

Just before I went on holiday recently I was asked how human learning has changed with the advent, penetration and increasing ubiquity of computing technology. Human learning hasn’t fundamentally changed over the last fifty years. We can only ‘learn’ in ‘this’ way and ’so’ much.

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Upside Learning

MAY 18, 2010

These tools present several type of templates, each designed for some specific behavior and onscreen layout. As the behavior and layout is pre-programmed for each template, it doesn’t require programming or designing skills to develop the course content. Typically, the learning curve for most of such tools is not very steep.

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Upside Learning

JULY 30, 2023

Here we review the practices through the design process. In general, we can view the design process through the lens of ADDIE: Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. If it’s a skill gap that has to be in the head, spaced learning has the potential to help.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 7, 2011

Learning design is not just a science, it is an art. When the team works and generates effective learning designs, they are a result of a deep rooted instructional design philosophy. You can find out more about Upside’s learning design here. Take a look, it’s quite self-explanatory.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

(NB: I used to teach interface design, having studied under one of the gurus.) However, in the context of the conversation, it made me also ponder a related topic: “don’t make me learn”. There are times, I’ll posit, when we don’t want employees to be learning. There are times when learning doesn’t make sense. Fair enough?

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Scenarios are a great learning solution but aren’t necessarily the right solution all the time. When to Scenario, or Not Scenarios are contextualized practice, which is what learning generally requires. Such as when the performance is too critical to trust to those still learning. There are times when learning isn’t the answer.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2023

2023 is winding down, and at Upside Learning, we’re feeling nostalgic about the incredible moments, we feel it’s customary to glance back and celebrate the milestones and triumphs that defined our journey through the year. The campaign explored the nuances of developing impactful deeper learning experiences.

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Upside Learning

JULY 11, 2009

What’s an instructional designer doing attending sales training? In the interest of smoothening instructional development, the company offered to conduct the retail sales training seminar for our instructional designers. We often design ILT, but rarely have a chance to interact with the Trainers who deliver it.

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Upside Learning

JULY 11, 2009

What’s an instructional designer doing attending sales training? In the interest of smoothening instructional development, the company offered to conduct the retail sales training seminar for our instructional designers. We often design ILT, but rarely have a chance to interact with the Trainers who deliver it.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 15, 2010

We’ve always focused on instructional design being essential to the design of courseware. That’s certainly true, it’s the first step to make a learning solution instructionally sound. I see just three reasons why eLearning should focus some more on the media design. I’ve been busy with projects – bread and butter.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Last month our ID team got their feet wet with the learning campaigns in the Age of Empires II – Age of Kings. In our weekly instructional design team meetings the following week, we discussed our impressions, and what makes AOE offer such meaningful interaction and engagement. Here’s a recap: 1. or an apologetic ‘Not quite.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2010

As designers of electronic learning and information, we often find ourselves confronted by the purpose of the learning. Electronic Learning is about performance and content; in a sense instructional design is not purely creative; it is design with intent. Create a structure based on the design.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 24, 2012

As Instructional Designers move away from purely being creators of content, to developers of tools and applications that assist learning and support performance, understanding the processes used by the software development industry becomes rather important. In other words, it is about the end-user experience.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

As learning designers and developers, we’d want to create gripping experiences that draw in learners and keep them up till two in the morning (like video games do to so many). Being in flow, according to Csikszentmihalyi, is the optimal learning experience. The activity itself is intrinsically motivating.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

We are looking for senior, experienced professionals in Instructional Design (Learning Designer), Visual Design (Visualizer, Sr. Graphic Designer, Art Director), Flash Programming (Lead Programmers), and Project Management (Sr. Why should you join Upside Learning? Current Openings.

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 30, 2010

Some days ago, I wrote about some basic design principles pertinent to the presentation of information. In eLearning, usability is simply about designing interfaces to the content that learners find convenient and practical to use. The courseware we design need to be logical, intuitive, and clear to the learners who take the course.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2013

On a recent backpacking trip to Indonesia with my husband, who is also an instructional designer, we visited the famous Taman Pintar (literally, Garden of Knowledge) in Yogyakarta. Upside Learning eLearning Interactive Learning'

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Upside Learning

MAY 17, 2023

This is the picture I paint in Learning Science for Instructional Designers, my recent book on how we learn. That’s how I learned it in grad school, and little seemed to change that. This is true for learning designers, but I would suggest there’s broader applicability. Learn it, and benefit.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Here’s a quick summary of the points which I found to be relevant to eLearning and Instructional Design. The article addresses a diverse set of user experience guidelines and standards and consists of some really practical and useful tips which can and ought to be implemented right away. Progressive Disclosure ).

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Upside Learning

JUNE 7, 2023

The second important thing is no learning occurred! Yet I didn’t need to learn! Trying to put it into my head as learning first, then having me perform, wouldn’t make sense. Trying to put it into my head as learning first, then having me perform, wouldn’t make sense. Learning might happen anyway, but it doesn’t matter.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 3, 2010

The main reason was that such simulation tools are not always used for developing just any type of learning but focused on training content creation for a specific software application or system. Previously when I discussed freeform and template-based rapid content authoring tools, I kept software simulation tools aside.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 31, 2010

Over so often I get asked what fundamentals of game design apply to the design of learning games – a very difficult question to answer that. In my opinion, every sort of principle ever used in the design of commercial video games applies to the creation of digital learning games as well. more about that here.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 8, 2011

For all of you who have worn your ears out listening to all things iPad, the past week, there’s a something on eLearning skills, digital storytelling, TED videos, instructional design , game-based learning and more. Need to quench your thirst for the latest in learning, technology and media links further?

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Upside Learning

MARCH 23, 2011

Is mobile learning becoming a reality rather than a prediction? And has this led to new generation of players emerging in the learning market place? Over the last three years there have been various predictions , ranging from pessimistic to optimistic about the role that mobile learning will play in the world of learning.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

From Games to Instruction Design, to eLearning and Microlearning, it squeezed out every bit of knowledge from our best bloggers. You can look forward to some hardcore ID gyan from Aneesh, while Abhijeet would be the one feeding you with your weekly dose of the best of Learning, Technology and Media links. Tell Me A Story….

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Coming back from vacation and digging into my feeds I found this interesting article from Wired – Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning is Wrong. As an instructional designer, there is a lot of common sense in this article that I directly apply to creating learning solutions.

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Upside Learning

MAY 7, 2015

As a leading provider of learning technology solutions, we often get questioned about the ‘quality’ of our solutions and services; what it means to us and how we ensure ‘great’ For us, quality begins from the very onset of the project.

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Upside Learning

JULY 7, 2009

The 2008 edition received a much better response, with complete data from 54 participants, of which ~70% were from the Instructional Design and Project Management fields. The 2007 edition had just 11 responses and could not provide any meaningful conclusions other than the fact that eLearning salary ranges varied quite a bit in India.

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Upside Learning

JULY 7, 2009

The 2008 edition received a much better response, with complete data from 54 participants, of which ~70% were from the Instructional Design and Project Management fields. The 2007 edition had just 11 responses and could not provide any meaningful conclusions other than the fact that eLearning salary ranges varied quite a bit in India.

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Upside Learning

MAY 18, 2011

It is a well-known fact that Mobile learning hasn’t yet picked up steam within India. As Elearning developers, we need to ensure that our development team members (Instructional Designers, Graphic Designers and Programmers) are more familiar with HTML5 and some critical design conventions in order to make our mobile applications a success.

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 10, 2011

Second Life itself was a promising collaborative 3D learning platform. Yet, as I trawl the web looking for successful implementations of such 3Dverses for learning, I find very little substantive information about companies implementing such systems with any reasonable success. Learning in 3D. 3D Learning Archetypes.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 11, 2012

Game Based Learning Isn’t Always Electronic. Instructional Design And The Six Thinking Hats. Microlearning – A Paradigm Shift In The Way We Learn. What Is Mobile Learning? Instructional Design for Beginners – What Motivates People To Learn? Upside’s Learning Design Philosophy.

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