Upside Learning

JANUARY 25, 2011

The past weeks have seen a flurry of Web activity – bloggers making predictions for the coming months; retrospections on the year gone by; new product releases; top lists, summary posts being pulled up, and more. Many analysts are predicting 2011 will be the year of the tablet. Is This the Year of the Educational Tablet?

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Social Networking: The Future. Where is social networking headed next? Check eight predictions in this article from Mark Suster via Tech Crunch. Lists and explains 5 trends that would be predominant in the LMS and mobile learning domain in the coming year. Read it here. Read it here. Let’s Play!

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Sizes of three structures in the brain can predict a video gamer’s success. 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

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Seems like, the war between social networking sites is far from over. Bold Predictions: Half of US Publishers Expect E-books to Be Dominant Format by 2014. The last week saw Facebook announcing the launch of its first cell phone, followed by Twitter launching its own version of Facebook’s ‘mutual friends’.

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Upside Learning

MAY 11, 2010

If the LMS offers a myriad of features like eLearning as well as classroom training management, content authoring, exhaustive reporting, typical course management it adds a significant value in terms of savings in time, cost and also in bringing in some amount of predictability in the process which is required by companies.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 18, 2011

Predictions and Hopes for Elearning in 2011. Lists 22 predictions and 14 hopes covering diverse topics including: mobile learning, analytics, accreditation, open educational resources, quality of e-learning, perceived quality, accountability, faculty development, and many calls for collaboration. Predictions for e-Learning in 2011.

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Upside Learning

MAY 23, 2012

Gartner predicted earlier this year that IT will be expected to do more with less in 2012. It is estimated that 75% of the workforce in the US is already mobile and IDC predicts that by 2015 the numbers, worldwide, will reach 1.3 In most organizations sales staff, transportation personnel, and senior executives are mostly mobile.

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