Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

One of the first steps of evaluation is what learners think of the learning experience. They were looking to establish a stronger corporate culture across their various branches, and eLearning provided a solution that would support reaching across international boundaries. This was to help learners feel safe to participate.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2023

That is, an engine takes learner actions and calculates the change in the underlying model, then presents the outcome to the user for the next decision. There can be an underlying loop keeping the world moving, so you get action and learners have to respond. Video can provide a richer context, at the risk of more production costs.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 3, 2010

The tools generally provide facility to later on edit the recordings before publishing the output. However, some tools may not provide full editing so as to facilitate just-in-time authoring and publishing. The context-based feedback lets learner latch onto the minute details of the application in question.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 20, 2023

Yet too often our introductions to the learning fail to help learners comprehend the relevance of the learning. When learners understand the personal relevance, the What’s In It For Me (WIIFM), they learn better. Moreover, you’re seeing instruction for which it’s not clear learners will invest true effort into learning.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The performance objectives established should clearly be represented in the choices of action the learner chooses from. The second element is that learners have to recognize that the situation portrayed is relevant to them. We may not need a commercial level of play, but we need learners to not resist nor reject the experience.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The solution Scenario-based learning was selected as a viable way to not just provide information but to require demonstrating the behaviors in action. Learners were presented with situations, and had to choose how to respond. Learner acceptance isn’t always a good indicator of utility, but too often, that’s the best that’s available.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Unless we want to have happy learners (if we’re selling the solution, or we’re working aiming for a true learning experience), we really don’t care what they think about it. Whether learners like an intervention doesn’t provide us with any useful information. We can ask the learners themselves for one level of value.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 14, 2024

As part of the ongoing season focused on learning impact, the episode provides valuable insights into understanding, managing, and optimizing the impact of training intervention. Clark Quinn challenges industry norms by championing evidence-based practices in learning and development.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

You’ll gain a clear understanding of how scenarios leverage the art of storytelling to enhance decision-making skills and immerse learners in realistic contexts. Scenario Design: Go to Whoa Here, we provide a step-by-step guide to designing successful learning scenarios.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2023

You need to know what learners need to be able to do at the end because that’s what they’ll have to do in the scenario! You also need to know the things learners or performers do wrong on the job. What is the minimal set of contexts to provide application in all appropriate settings? Mager’s formula for good objectives)?

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 24, 2012

As we become used to software (especially web-services) being in perpetual beta, it is now possible to release often, sometimes just enough to provide the learning, before adding significant graphic design and interaction effort. Endless rounds of alphas and betas, and a go-live date were stressful for all project stakeholders.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 22, 2023

Fallacy #1 – The transfer of learning is considered complete only when learners can recall the information provided in the learning intervention after the said training. For too long we’ve burdened learners with tons of content, and then added token knowledge checks that test recall. That has never worked, right?

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Upside Learning

APRIL 4, 2024

You may already be evaluating learner views, immediate intervention outcomes, or changes in workplace behaviors. If you’re collecting learner feedback on the learning, can you get their performance? Then you can start working with providers to gather more detailed information further down the impact chain.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 20, 2023

Too frequently, such as daily, risks annoying your learners and over-investing in resources. Of course, if you don’t provide a sufficient initial foundation, the subsequent reactivation may not achieve an actual improvement, as there wasn’t an appropriate base. Thus, your spending could be higher than necessary.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 11, 2023

In eLearning development, we are often dependent on SMEs to provide inputs. However, they don’t necessarily know what to share and how to share with novice learners. In reality, in most cases, they cannot do so since their knowledge is stacked neatly in models such that it is automatized.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 7, 2023

The video provided sufficient support for me to succeed. There are certainly learner preferences for smaller content. However, learner preferences have a notoriously low correlation with the actual value of an approach. Providing small bits of this matches technology capability with our learning architecture.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 15, 2009

This could leave your learners with a bad experience. However, for encoding hundreds of high quality, high length professional videos, you can consider other third-party software which provides several options/setting to deliver professional videos. However, often we find videos not being used optimally. Choosing source video.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 30, 2012

It’s not necessary that all LMS functionalities will be aligned with the organizations business practices, hence, it becomes important to provide a hassle free navigation to the user to avoid any confusion. Provide Relevant & Instructionally Rich Content. Engaging learner through eLearning is always a challenge.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog provides a short compilation and review of Upside Learning’s recent thought-provoking Position Papers authored by our Chief Learning Strategist, Clark Quinn. Dive into a treasure trove of expert perspectives! Get ready to explore a wealth of insights, trends, and strategies that pave the way for smarter learning solutions.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 30, 2013

So here are the 10 advantages of leveraging an LMS for blended learning, justifiably segregated for administrators and learners – both who will be a part of your blended learning program. You can reach out to a large number of learners, irrespective of their location and department. For Learners. For Administrators.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 21, 2024

There may be times we need to change the behavior and aren’t measuring whether the behavior is impacting the business, or we just want to know learners are able to do new things at the end of the training. ” This resource provides comprehensive insights and practical strategies to help you create impactful learning interventions.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

It’s not only because it calls for heavy investments and cumbersome processes pertaining to LMS selection and implementation, but it also brings along a factor of ‘change’ that affects the learners in the process, significantly. In this post, I talk of the 2 critical factors of LMS switching from the learners’ perspective.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

It provides a good summary of the issues to be considered when designing learning material. Methods for grabbing the learners’ attention: ? Adopt strategies such as games or role-play to get learners involved with the material or subject matter. ? Pose questions or problems for the learners to solve. Launch It!’

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Upside Learning

JUNE 20, 2011

Research suggests that if learners are able to score and win the game without learning, they are more likely to do so. In order for a game to be educational, it is imperative that the learners be required to learn in order to score and win the game. The learner is hooked on when the story and the game are interwoven. It doesn’t!

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Upside Learning

JUNE 13, 2012

Nowadays, almost all corporate learners have access to computers and the Internet. When used in a structured way, blended learning can allow organizations to mix different teaching materials and tools into an effective, integrated learning experience, giving learners an opportunity to move from passive learning to active learning.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 19, 2013

In an environment where speed and access to information is critical, the opportunity to extend reach and provide performance support at the crucial ‘point of need’ moment, is in itself a competitive edge! It allows the learner to take their training with them and use it when most required. Knowledge Retention.

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Upside Learning

JULY 3, 2012

A good mobile learning platform provides users with a mobile enabled environment where they can access the training activities in the form of videos, podcasts, eLearning courses, quizzes and evaluation surveys and also enables them to use their mobile device to share knowledge with others (within or outside their team) in real-time.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 30, 2010

A learner gains knowledge when he/she uses the provided information to actually do things and receives feedback about what he/she has done. The courses that we create provide the learners with tons of information. However, it is not knowledge until the learner does something with that information.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A ‘Performance Support System’ or PSS refers to any system that improves worker productivity by providing on-the-job access to integrated information, advice and learning experiences. The learners can use the advice without having a deep understanding of the task. The four components of a good PSS.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 16, 2010

Provide a central and manageable system for both online and offline training. Focused on control and managing more than learner experience. Still focused on formal learning to be pushed to learners. A real opportunity for LMS to create learner-centric environments rather than centralized course delivery system.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 1, 2023

Whether you envision microlearning as an on-demand resource like YouTube or as bite-sized content spread over time, the eBook provides clarity on each approach and guides you in choosing the right one for your needs. The eBook guides you through the essentials of microlearning while shedding light on the common pitfalls too. What’s Inside?

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Upside Learning

MAY 30, 2023

Whether you envision microlearning as an on-demand resource like YouTube or as bite-sized content spread over time, the eBook provides clarity on each approach and guides you in choosing the right one for your needs. The eBook guides you through the essentials of microlearning while shedding light on the common pitfalls too.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 15, 2013

Driven by the rapidly changing way the people learn in the workplace today, Learning Management Systems have had to keep pace and change in their design and capability to deliver what today’s learner is asking for. It gives the power of creating content [that helps others learn] to the learners themselves.

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Upside Learning

JULY 26, 2012

As the learner submits his choice of answer for each question, the selected options are tracked via the LMS and recorded in the database. While the learner is answering, at some point however it might become clear that the learner may not secure a passing score even though he answers all subsequent questions correctly.

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Upside Learning

JULY 4, 2011

As we prepare to iterate development of Upside2Go, we will need to start figuring out what sort of features our users (learners, managers, administrators) would really like from a mobile LMS. Second, providing an easy to use interface with clear push/pull/sync of user-generated content to individual devices.

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Upside Learning

MAY 6, 2010

Learning technology today, particularly enterprise-wide online content management systems coupled with the internet provide huge amounts of information. Learners find it difficult to navigate disjoint information, and this affects learning outcomes. The framework provides means to create contextualized stories. technologies.

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 30, 2010

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. Tell learners where they are —. Use visible links showing the learner where to go.

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