Upside Learning

JANUARY 25, 2011

At Upside Learning, we have been doing our bit in spreading knowledge. This week we deliver you a dose of the latest in mobile learning, Web design & development, eLearning and Social Media. Need to quench your thirst for the latest in learning, technology and media links further? Informal Workplace Learning.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 13, 2024

If they learned from this knowledge, we should oblige. We also are always chasing the latest fancy tech, so we can say we’re doing video, VR, and now AI. In summary, resisting the discomfort of learning impact might seem easier, but it stifles progress. The post How to Avoid Learning Impact! Who are we to question them?

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Scenarios-based learning comprises several conceptual dimensions: whether they’re simulation-driven, branching, or even just better-written multiple-choice questions (MCQ). You can use media, such as images, comics, or even video to support your contextualization, as well as audio and/or text. Another factor is how they’re implemented.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Josh Bersin cites YouTube Videos as one of the best learning tools available in his session at the HR Technology Conference last week. I agree and see a bigger role for videos in the learning mix. Ten or fifteen years ago, video was used by most organizations for training. Why Video Again?

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 5, 2023

While scenarios are better learning, there are tradeoffs. If you’re using video, it’s more costly than images and text. Even high-quality audio (which matters more than the quality of the video, counterintuitively) can be costly to produce. Really, we’re talking about achieving ‘deeper learning’. That’s what scenarios do.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The purpose was to explore how to use interactive videos effectively as an instructional tool. So here’s what I learned: 1 – When you think of medium matters […]. I recently concluded an experiment.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 14, 2023

Experience is the essence of effective learning. This is where experiential learning comes into play. Experiential learning encompasses a wide range of activities such as simulations, role plays, storytelling, immersive challenges, and more. This approach aligns with the research-backed principles of effective learning.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 16, 2016

Videos have always been effective where high-fidelity content is required. And with most platforms now failing to support Flash, videos have also become a technical means of including media-rich, vector-based, closely audio-synched animations (or for that matter any other type of animation) into multi-device eLearning.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The L&D Go Beyond Podcast kicks off its second season with a thought-provoking episode Dr. Keith Keating, SVP, Chief Learning Officer at Archwell Holdings, discussing the evolution of Learning and Development (L&D) professionals. Insights on becoming trusted learning advisors from order takers to strategic partners.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Scenario-based learning is a valuable approach, but as with all design tasks, that value comes most clearly when things are done right. Elements in Scenario-Based Learning Designing scenarios involves getting all the elements correct. Obviously, bad choices aren’t useful to support learning. in ways that suit the need.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

M obile developers won’t need to learn specialized code each time to port their solutions on different devices. - Checkout the video demonstrating some Adobe AIR apps on Motorola Droid –. And here’s a video demonstrating Flash running on Dell Mini 5 through mobile browser –. made available for handheld devices.

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Upside Learning

JULY 24, 2023

Spaced Learning, to be effective, needs to have a planned rollout, where the initial concepts are reinforced and expanded upon. It needs a good grip on a sustained campaign, as our brains can only learn a little bit in each instance. Spaced learning needs these as well. Explore the power of spaced learning!

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Upside Learning

APRIL 4, 2012

For all you folks who couldn’t make it to our webinar with Brandon Hall Group, titled Learner Driven Learning Management System in a Global Environment held on 22 nd March, here’s a recorded video that will transport you back in time. Amit Gautam, Director of Technology Solutions at Upside Learning, filled in for Jason.

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Upside Learning

JULY 30, 2010

Found this at Smashing Magazine – a list of 25 User Experience Videos that as the magazine puts it, ‘are worth your time’. Not much to say – make the time to watch the videos. They’re fairly long videos at times. Tags: Learning Design User Experience User Experience Design User Experience Videos.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 30, 2016

Videos have always held a great deal of attraction. The fact that a well presented/designed video tends to capture immediate and prolonged attention is well documented. Videos have always been effective mediums of telling stories and also used as multi-device solutions, and short videos for performance support.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Top 100 Learning Game Resources. Top 47 eLearning & Workplace Learning Blogs. Top 50 Mobile Learning Resources. Our Top 10 Learning Tools 2009. Five Myths of Mobile Learning. Mobile Learning in India. Upside Learning Completes Five Years. Top Posts Category Wise: Game Based Learning.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

If you care about learning outcomes (and you should), you definitely should know about scenario-based learning. With meaningful practice set in relevant contexts, scenarios are one of the most powerful approaches to make learning work. ScenariNos Learn how to avoid common pitfalls in scenario-based learning.

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Upside Learning

MAY 10, 2010

Came across an interesting video this morning via the elearningpost blog. While I’ve written about the semantic web on this blog before, this video is a succinct way to understand what Web 3.0 While I’ve written about the semantic web on this blog before, this video is a succinct way to understand what Web 3.0 is all about.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 7, 2023

I no longer remember exactly what the problem was and how I used the video. What I do know is that I used the video to successfully diagnose the problem with my dryer, replace the faulty part, and get it running again. First, I used the video to successfully repair my dryer. The second important thing is no learning occurred!

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Upside Learning

MAY 5, 2010

Audio/Video Support – HTML5 has added new video and audio tags that can play video/audio in a browser without a plugin but it doesn’t officially support any video or audio format. This Wikipedia article provides more details about HTML5 video support. in Flash Based eLearning Development?

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 7, 2012

For those of you who couldn’t attend our recent webinar in association with the Brandon Hall Group, titled ‘A Unified Approach to the Learning Management System’ – don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. You can view the recording of the webinar by clicking here.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

While the large LMS systems are simply out-of-reach of a majority of businesses, most of the small LMS systems don’t necessarily have all the necessary features your business needs for efficient and effective learning management – be it for internal staff or for your customers. Please register here for the demo.

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Upside Learning

JULY 4, 2013

In his book, Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization (Wiley, 2013), Dan Pontefract defines ‘Pervasive Learning’ as: “learning at the speed of need through formal, informal and social learning modalities” (I got the above definition from Dan’s blog, the book is still on my ‘to read’ list.)

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Upside Learning

JULY 2, 2009

It makes HTML more powerful by adding new elements like video and audio. Video & Audio – You can play video or audio in HTML 5 WITHOUT any plug-in required (like Flash or Silverlight], simply by using the new audio and video markup tags. So what’s the big deal ? and Opera is also working on similar lines.

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Upside Learning

MAY 13, 2010

Here is the list of popular tools in eLearning Suite 2 with the video of new features –. Here’s a video demonstrating the new features of eLearning Suite 2 and Captivate CS5 –. Again here’s a short video –. Checkout this video to see all new features and improvements –. Flash CS5 has many new features.

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 24, 2023

In it, she recited how she’s being pushed on video length. What I replied is that people focusing on video length are missing the point. There is research (PDF) that suggests that video attention flags after 6 minutes. My point to my colleague was to focus first on the relevance and value of the video, not the length.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Content pages, text, graphics, perhaps simple audio, perhaps simple video, test questions. Level 1 plus 25% (or more) interactive exercises (allowing learners to perform virtual “try it&# exercises), liberal use of multimedia (audio, video, animations). How Long Does it Take to Create Learning? Research Study].

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 11, 2012

It was a fantastic event with some great speakers and an opportunity to learn drumming. I spoke (for 5 min) on how mobile enables informal learning. Informal Learning. One of the challenge L&D staff has had is to understand Informal Learning and what can they do something about it. Here’s a summary of my talk.

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Upside Learning

JULY 17, 2014

She checks her mail while waiting to board her flight at the airport, and comes across an introductory video link to a training session that is going to be conducted later in the day. Blended Learning The future of Blended Learning' She has nothing else to do, so she takes […].

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Upside Learning

MAY 20, 2010

On day 1 of the I/O Google has made many announcements like release of open source, royalty-free video format WebM, Chrome Web store, opened up Google Wave, released open source Font API and directory etc. Also Adobe has announced that they would be supporting the WebM video format in the next release of Flash Player.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 25, 2014

I was watching the promo video for Android Wear and wondered if, with smart watches, personal learning agents could soon become a reality. Last week Google announced Android Wear, an operating system for wearable computing devices. Moto 360, a smart watch from Motorola running on Android Wear will be out this summer. Innovation'

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Upside Learning

MAY 8, 2012

When our clients consider mobile learning, we often find them stuck in trying to deliver learning (training) on mobile devices. The key to exploiting the potential of mobile learning is to think of mobile beyond their learning content delivery capability. Mobile Learning is just too restrictive a term.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 29, 2010

I was looking forward to the Apple iPad even more so as we have been doing good stuff on mobile learning and putting up applications and tools on iPhone as pilots and on a trial basis. I need to connect to my family back home, talk to my team and do video calls regularly – with the iPad there is just no way to do that. Some reasons: 1.

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Upside Learning

JULY 17, 2023

We could have used photos of each individual step with instructions, but in this case, the dynamics of the process suggested videos. Then, these videos needed to be made available at the point of need. We wanted to trigger the videos when a particular cleaner was being used.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 5, 2012

It can be quite hard to find examples of tablets being leveraged for performance and learning in the public domain. Most companies are quite cagey about how they are using tablets and related technology for learning; to be honest, I don’t see why, but that is another matter altogether. The rollout involves about 1000 devices.

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Upside Learning

JULY 11, 2012

As our forays into game-based learning continue, so does the research. Learning From Game Design: 11 Gambits For Influencing User Behaviour. Learning From Game Design: 11 Gambits For Influencing User Behaviour. Katie Salen on Game Design and Learning. Learning The Rules. Feedback Loops in Games and Learning.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

As social technology growth continues to march on and dynamic learning grows to be the need of the day, it is little surprise that social media has now become an integral part of learning as well. about the content of a learning module and get answers/opinions from others following the course tag. This is just one example.

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