Upside Learning

AUGUST 24, 2009

I’ve been occupied with writing a paper to promote the adoption of mobile learning amongst corporates and enterprises. While trawling through multiple web-links, a pattern of myths about mobile learning emerges. Additionally, corporates across the world have taken to mobile technologies in a big way.

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Upside Learning

MAY 9, 2011

Mobile Learning seemed to be the flavor of the past month at our blogging stable. I wrote about the key points to be remembered while deciding the target device for mobile learning, while we had a quick SWOT analysis conducted by Amit Gautam. Amongst others were articles on digital natives, Lego and creativity, multitasking etc.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 15, 2014

A few years back, designers had a fixed size canvas, no matter what the medium – whether for print or digital media. There are PCs and Macs, laptops, tablets, hybrids, phablets, and mobile phones out there, all with different dimensions and […]. eLearning Responsive eLearning Responsive eLearning Design'

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Upside Learning

MAY 21, 2010

The much-touted ‘cloud’ computing paradigm coupled with mobile devices and the huge information source that is the internet is technology that can change that. However efficient and adopted in a variety of ways, these technologies supplanted human physical capabilities, and not the perception-cognition complex itself.

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Upside Learning

MAY 3, 2011

Today, we have new forms of learning like – blended, informal, social, mobile etc. Besides this, we also have some tools that will help you in mobile app development. Mobile Learning: The Next Evolution. Know the steps to implementing a successful mobile learning strategy. 10 Reasons To Use Digital Textbooks.

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Upside Learning

MAY 20, 2011

As technology continues to infiltrate every corner of the K-12 educational space, mobile learning is slowly but clearly emerging as the ‘future’ of learning. Furthermore, you can learn some tips, techniques and best practices for developing mobile web apps. How To Teach Using Mobile Phones. The Desktop Is Turning Mobile.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Digital Instructional Media Design 101- Storyboarding. Digital Instructional Media Design 101- The Design Of Interaction. The Mobile Learning Edge – A Quick Book Review. While some of these factors simply translate to ‘Business Needs’, others determine the ‘Readiness of the Organization’ to adapt to eLearning.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

More and more, we depend on digital agents to help us navigate that ‘data stream’ and glean information from it, and then to make sense of it. My instant reaction when I saw the graphic was – we are now currently entering the mobile learning phase, will an ‘ubiquitous’ learning phase be next.

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Upside Learning

JULY 29, 2010

The use of mobiles and other related digital media as an alternative source of information is increasingly gaining ground in the learning environment. The Horizon Report 2010 on Mobile Computing also points out some interesting trends that will alter the way we live and learn. You can read more about it here.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 11, 2012

What Is Mobile Learning? Mobile Learning – What It Can Do For A Global Workforce. What I Learnt About Mobile Learning Design. Is Mobile Learning A Reality Now? Getting Started With Mobile Learning? 5 Myths About Digital Natives. Mobile Learning: A Quick SWOT Analysis. Flash For Mobile Is Dead.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 22, 2011

Many schools and classrooms all over are investing in mobile devices and educators want to know how to use them effectively, the apps to consider and more. Growing Up Digitally: The iPad As A Learning Device. 31 Of My Favorite Digital Storytelling Sites. Here are 31 digital storytelling sites that you would want to check.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Gamification is not ‘gaming’, we needn’t create digital games costing thousands of dollars and hours to benefit. Digital games are vastly popular and they are only becoming more commonplace in our daily lives. These ‘digital natives’ tend to behave differently from those who came before them.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 15, 2011

The Internet is going ga ga about it; the mobile lovers can’t seem to get enough of it; the Apple fanboys have already bought it; while the rest have been writing about it. More on tips and tricks that will help you get the most out of your iPad, digital story telling and the future of the tablet. Digital Storytelling With The iPad.

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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. Digital Storytelling. The Idea Economy Requires Digital Learning Now. Is Mobile Affecting When We Read?

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2010

The term “21st-century skills&# is generally used to refer to certain core competencies such as collaboration, digital literacy, critical thinking, and problem-solving. People Spend As Much Time On Mobile As Reading Newspapers And Magazines. Almost Half Of Mobile Users Use Internet More Than Apps.

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Upside Learning

MAY 13, 2011

4 Ways Mobile Tech Is Improving Education. With Internet in the palm of our hands, educators are looking at mobile as the next big tool for schools. Here are 4 ways in which mobile devices are helping improve education. Web vs. Native Mobile App? So what is the future of the mobile Internet? Forrester Says Do Both.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 1, 2011

Know how work would shape up in the future, major ideas that would change the world of training and how learning would soon turn mobile. The Future Is Now : Think Mobile First. Mobile challenges many assumptions because of its unprecedented growth and potential. So, think future, think mobile. So here’s to the future.

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Upside Learning

JULY 31, 2012

It’d be a shame to throw that out the window and replace with a digital version. Hit this link to check out videos of what Ikea did rather than completely replace the 211 million print copies of their catalog, they chose to add digital elements to using QR-like codes.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Windows Mobile for Gaming. Microsoft to make Windows Mobile a gaming platform. While other mobile OS developers are jockeying for position to become the game platform of choice for mobile devices, Windows mobile lagged behind. Interesting products, although some will cease to exist starting next year.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

A great challenge for digital designers, and an even greater opportunity. Tags: Future Learning Mobile Learning apple ipad Blackberry Playbook Tablet Computers Tablet Interface.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Mobile Learning: An Upside Learning Point of View. Further to the developments in the mLearning domain, ‘Mobile Learning – Here and Now’ is a Point of View paper published by Upside Learning that is available for a free download. Rapid Prototyping for Mobile Learning Applications – I.

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Upside Learning

MAY 30, 2011

We have also included a couple of guides and tips on some eLearning and mLearning topics that will help you in creating effective learning experiences and designing mobile apps respectively. Gathered up here are some of the best practices of mobile app design which can be applied to mobile learning and mobile performance support.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 10, 2009

FluidPaint –Drawing on digital interface using real brushes. This technology let use of real wet brushes for painting on a digital interface. The digitized painting then can be manipulated using image editors like Photoshop etc. This one is about how the iPod touch is a BIG player in mobile device market.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 30, 2013

This means, a training program that offers a variety of approaches, including face-to-face, online, mobile to name a few, is bound to have a greater success rate. 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

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Digital media literacy continues its rise in importance as a key skill in every discipline and profession. Mobile Apps. Important Constraints and Challenges: Economic pressures and new models of education are bringing unprecedented competition to the traditional models of higher education. Tablet Computing. Game-Based Learning.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 4, 2011

Lets Understand the Mobile Phone Market, installed base and smartphones vs dumbphones. Mobile author Tomi Ahonen gives stats-filled analysis of the handset market. Lists all applications in Education and Mobile Learning that you need to install to start off with your iPad project. 65% of Internet Users Paid for Digital Content.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 24, 2009

Marc Prensky – Digital Game-Based Learning. mLearn08: MiLK: students building mobile learning games in higher education by Debra Polson- Ignatia Webs, November 12, 2008. Digital games and learning gains (PDF), June 17, 2009. Army War College – digital game resources. Digital Game Based Learning.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 24, 2009

Marc Prensky - Digital Game-Based Learning. mLearn08: MiLK: students building mobile learning games in higher education by Debra Polson- Ignatia Webs, November 12, 2008. Digital games and learning gains (PDF), June 17, 2009. Army War College - digital game resources. Digital Game Based Learning. Serious Games Blog.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The Growth Of Mobile: Stats And Figures That Will Shock You! This video on iPads in Education highlights some amazing statistics about the use of mobile phone and devices. Growing Up Digital, Wired For Distraction. HTML5 was one of the top trends of 2010 and one of the areas seeing increased use of HTML5 is mobile devices.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Internet use engages more neural circuitry than book reading in the digital generation. Originally built as a software concept, the Android app called “Recongnizr&# is a mobile prototype that allows you to use your phone in order to “see&# who a person is and what web services and social networks they’re connected to.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 13, 2010

The content right now seems to be predominantly instructor-led training that’s been digitized. The leap beyond computers as learning devices – I’ve always thought that India would would make a great technological leap and adopt mobile technology in a big way, skipping the personal computer paradigm along the way.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Augmented reality will eventually allow a unique way to control our increasingly digital world, how will ‘Workplace Learning’ take advantage of this? The age of the ‘mobile application’ is well and truly here. The tracking works from a few feet away and is quite a technical accomplishment.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Given that most LMS systems are digital versions of what classroom training management was all about, that’s not a surprise. Mobile learning (or mLearning) is probably a good example here. However, the silver lining is that LMS systems are evolving to find a balance between an LMS and SNS. Each is at a different stage.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 31, 2010

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. Playing video games is one obvious way to imbibe the essential philosophy of digital games and the varied game-play mechanics. The author moved on to Play This Thing!

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Upside Learning

JUNE 17, 2010

After a few years of hype, mobile learning has now started flourishing; the advent of new generation of mobile devices, high-speed network access, powerful mobile browsers and better native apps are all contributing to this. Here are some authoring tools that claim to let authors develop content targeted at mobile devices.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Related posts: More Digital Natives Boomers Adopt Consumer Technology 20x Faster! Tags: Future Learning Future Technology Innovation Mobile Learning Social Learning Design eLearning eLearning Technology Workplace Learning. Upside Board Game Exercise - Download the Winning Game.

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Upside Learning

JULY 27, 2011

While doing some research, I came across this interesting article ‘Can India lead the mobile-internet revolution?’ Even though typical Indian consumers have no Internet access, they have a remarkable appetite for digital content. Total digital-content consumption will double, to as much as $9.5

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