Upside Learning

MAY 11, 2016

Soon after it was published, I realized that it lent itself pretty well for a presentation format. And so, without any ado, the content was rewritten from a presentation perspective, images added, and […]. Exactly 3 weeks back I had written a blog post – 10 Reasons why Training Companies must invest in a SaaS LMS.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2015

“We are interested in moving to mLearning, but don’t know how.” ” As an eLearning vendor, how often have you heard your clients say this, or as an organisation, have had this thought cross your mind? Quite often than not, I bet!

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Upside Learning

JUNE 18, 2015

Latest trends have been known to be the game changers; be it in the fashion industry or eLearning industry. Trend watchers are constantly on the lookout for new trends in the market that have the potential to change the face of the industry. In the case of eLearning, evolving technologies and improvised approaches make up […].

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Upside Learning

MAY 19, 2015

How does the most boring and uninspiring routine become interesting? The answer is simple – add a pinch of interest, a bit of motivation and a dash of Inspiration. We believe that Inspiration doesn’t have to be big. It can be found in little things and in the rarest of places. At times, simple thoughts […].

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Upside Learning

MARCH 7, 2024

These presentations were done in delicate ways yet conveyed necessary messages about mental health. Feedback was presented to help learners develop their abilities. A good solution would be to use the helpline more frequently, and in time to prevent situations from getting serious. The tone was serious, yet caring.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

A variety of media were used to present information, and knowledge was assessed with multiple-choice questions. Learners were presented with situations, and had to choose how to respond. Mini-scenarios were used to ask employees to act in ways consistent with the cultural values.

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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. Otherwise, the engine just keeps processing user input and determining the new situation to present to the learner. There’s also a check to see if terminal conditions (e.g.,

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 29, 2010

Without support for MS Office – I can’t even deliver good presentations. The eLearning industry thrives on Flash and without it how do I even present the great stuff we create to prospects. If I have to carry my iPhone and a laptop anyway; why would I carry another device? How do I store regular files in it? The missing camera.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Participation in Global Events Upside Learning at Learning Technologies London 2023 Amid global highlights in April, we presented our impactful eLearning solutions at Learning Technologies London 2023, spotlighting evidence-based programs for engaging, retention-focused learning. It was a vibrant and heartwarming gathering.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 25, 2011

8 Apps to Prepare You for Your Next Presentation/ Webmeeting. Lists some of the best apps, available on the iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad (some of which may have Android and Blackberry equivalents), which will help you plan on the go , sketch out your presentations and rehearse almost anywhere. Reader’s Digest Hits the iPad.

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Upside Learning

JULY 24, 2023

The awareness was triggered by curiosity over the outcomes of some emotional situations, and direct information presentation. Reflections The mixed mode and continued presentation and development are hallmarks of a successful spaced microlearning campaign. Learners then were asked to make choices and experience the consequences.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Then I shared how the transformation of world into a ‘mobile world’ and the changes in work and workplace, are together presenting a great opportunity for L&D to transform the training and learning in an enterprise as well. I think the presentation was well received and I hope you will find it useful as well.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 18, 2024

Learn to avoid mistakes such as putting all your faith in subject matter experts and putting too much emphasis on presentation at the expense of content. Determine the standard procedures that prevent learning interventions from having a significant impact.

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Upside Learning

MAY 3, 2023

In simple terms, it’s the human ability to be fully present, aware of where you are and what you’re doing, being conscious of your emotions, and being able to assess and control your behaviors. Mindfulness will help you be poised, present, focused, effective, and calm, whatever your project and stakeholders throw at you.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Excerpted from the CLO Summit brochure: “A day filled with inspiring keynotes, a few crisp panel discussions, stimulating presentations. The event scheduled for Nov 20th in Mumbai will focus on how organizational learning can impact business. So what can you expect? And a few pleasant surprises.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 18, 2021

The big shift to WFH The year presented many new challenges with the COVID-19 outbreak catching […]. 2021 is still very new, and memories of 2020 are still very fresh – and why won’t they be, 2020 was such an eventful year for every one of us, that we are bound to remember it for long.

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Upside Learning

MAY 22, 2009

The previous version of Times Reader was developed using Microsoft’s Silverlight and Windows Presentation Format (WPF). This is available for download from the NY Times’ Time Reader 2.0 site or Adobe’s Marketplace.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

To overcome these challenges Upside Learning presents The Compliance Hood App! Maintaining learning retention is challenging for a lot of organizations, especially for dull and drab compliance content. a light and easy practice to help businesses inject this culture of Compliance within the organization.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Explaining the present, let alone predicting the future, is challenging. While them getting their mind around learning would be a good step, I fear that too many see it as just management & leadership, not domain knowledge. Which, reliably, doesn’t work. Never predict anything, particularly the future!”)

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Upside Learning

MARCH 7, 2018

An year earlier, we presented separate blog posts on different responsive authoring tools: Adapt, Evolve, gomo, Elucidat, Captivate 9, Lectora 16 and Rise and shared our thoughts about their features, advantages, and limitations. In later blogs, we released detailed feature-wise comparison of these tools.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 30, 2010

For example, a feature that lets users “import” existing PowerPoint presentations into the authoring tool is different from authoring and publishing eLearning content from within PowerPoint (using a plug-in toolbar). While some try doing freeform authoring through a template-based authoring tool.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2019

You’re working on an important presentation, and halfway through it your system crashes. In the present times, we have a tendency to turn to YouTube, blogs, or podcasts to solve our problems or learn new things. What do you do next? I’m sure many of you would say “I’d Google how to fix it”. Essentially, […].

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

As promised, in the last post of the series, we present a comparative summary. In previous posts, we discussed six responsive authoring tools/frameworks: Adapt, Evolve, gomo, Elucidat, Captivate 9, and Lectora 16. So if you’re […].

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 21, 2013

We had presented a seminar on ‘eLearning on Tablets - What, Why and How?’ ’ at the Learning Technologies Summer Forum in June this year and had later posted the presentation on our blog too. The interest it garnered on both the occasions drove us to plan a live webinar on the same topic. And more so […].

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Upside Learning

JUNE 20, 2023

Just presenting content, or just presenting quiz questions, both may be wrong for any particular situation. You want content to expand their understanding, either showing new contexts that support further transfer, or extensions that handle new situations. Thus, you could again be wasting a content investment.

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Upside Learning

MAY 13, 2010

Adobe recently released eLearning Suite 2 comprising of Captivate 5, Flash Professional CS5, Dreamweaver CS5, Photoshop CS5 Extended, Acrobat 9 Pro, Presenter 7 (available on Windows only), Soundbooth CS5, Bridge CS5, Device Central CS5 in it.

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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. To focus more on rapidly authored eLearning content, I am excluding the screen recording tools which are mainly used for software simulation type of courses. First, let’s look at template-based tools.

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Upside Learning

MAY 3, 2018

In continuation of our evaluation of different responsive authoring tools, we are presenting Update 2 to our recently published blog ‘A Comparative Summary for Responsive Authoring Tools – Update 1’ This blog features additional authoring tool Lectora Online along with other responsive authoring tools like: Adapt, Evolve, gomo, Elucidat,Captivate (..)

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Upside Learning

MARCH 16, 2017

In this post, we’ll present an overview of the features, advantages, and limitations of Lumesse’s CourseBuilder. Here we are again with our eighth responsive authoring tool review.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 11, 2023

Experts suffer from what’s known as the ‘curse of knowledge (aka ‘curse of expertise’) – Wikipedia Link Learning Designers, in contrast, are (or should be) skilled to unpack the models SMEs hold and present the same more appropriately to novice learners. Some SMEs are certainly exceptions, but that is what they are exceptions.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Here’s a quick summary of the topics that I touched upon in the session, followed by a slide deck of my presentation. It is with this view and context, that I delivered my session on ‘Mobile Learning Implementation: Need, Myths & Success Factors’ , at the recently concluded ASTD TechKnowledge 2013, in San Jose.

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Upside Learning

MAY 21, 2010

Better than any simulation or temporal/spatial presentation of content ever. For a learning designer like myself, that’s the ULTIMATE solution, technology that enables the sharing of experience itself. Yes, perhaps its futuristic; and may even sound scary considering the gamut of human emotion.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

As I was looking through my feeds this morning, I noticed a post from Karl Kapp in which he mentions a presentation by the Chapman Alliance, which talks about development costs for an hour of Elearning based on a survey. Take a look: View more presentations from Chapman Alliance.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

We have been deeply intrigued by the slow uptake of mobile learning in spite of the huge potential it presents. We're passionate about mobile and tablet learning – as you would have noticed from several articles on our blog. In some of our articles, we've noted that while the potential is easy for all to […].

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Last week Amit and I made a small presentation to the Mobile Learning MOOC (MobiMOOC) about the possibilities in the future of mobile learning. You can find our presentation here. There are a whole bunch of examples and links in the presentation for each area that we spoke about. Ubiquitous and pervasive computing.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2014

A while back, I, along with my colleague Geera, presented a webinar – ‘Multi-device Testing: Challenges, Considerations and Solutions’ As a preparation for this webinar and, in general, being a part of the Quality Assurance team, we tried some tools and simulators to test multi-device eLearning to study to what extent they could help.

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 20, 2013

Below is a presentation with a compilation of 21 most inspiring quotes and thoughts that apply to mobile learning, by some […]. Mobile is the future of workplace learning. It is not just a statement, but something I believe in. There are many a thinkers in the domain that I follow, learn, and get inspired from.

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