Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

With service industries ending up as major consumers of learning, the focus on knowledge is more pronounced, I sometimes feel it is the one key influence affecting the level of service a company can offer and profit from. Today, most major car companies have a design cycle that rarely exceed 24 months for production models.

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Upside Learning

JULY 12, 2011

Like so many other Google products, this one is in beta and is gradually opening up to more users. One unique aspect separates Plus from other Google services. When Google Plus started out, it was already ’seeded’ with a large number of individuals who were already working on the concurrent development of the service.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 16, 2011

During the course of my web wanderings which have revolved around usability and user experience recently, I came across this interesting Hassenzahl’s model in the book ‘Funology’, that talks about the relationships between an user and a product. It is mainly about user experience, especially in reference to ‘fun’ in product design.

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 29, 2012

But typically an LMS switch boils down to 3 main factors: the product (feature/function/integration), the vendor (service/support/continuity), or the cost (annual licensing/maintenance/overhead). The Product. Products in the LMS space are ever-evolving to say the least. The Vendor.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 4, 2010

Craig Weiss also posted a comprehensive product review on his blog – Product Review: SCORM Cloud. Given that it hasn’t been released yet, the review will be revised once the product is launched and there are real customers using it. Ready to go as it’s a hosted service. Maybe I am missing something.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

A little googling and I discovered this report from The Canadian Trade Service, claiming the y-o-y growth rates in Australian elearning market to be around 27.3% During the visit I had an opportunity to discuss our solutions and services with some leading elearning companies, a few TAFE/VET institutes, and a few corporate clients there.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 30, 2011

It’s been quite an interesting week on the Google front, with the launch of one new service after another. User interface and user experience are unlike any other Google service I’ve used so far – quite simple and intuitive; it is evident Google has spent significant time and money working this out for Plus. Have you tried it?

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Upside Learning

JULY 1, 2010

Keeping business customers and its existing product/service range in mind, the tablet’s functions revolve around Cisco’s collaborative technology – services that include tele-presence and like Webex. It also provides application development opportunities that could integrate with Cisco’s existing product/service ecosystem.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

However, all of these reasons generally boil down to three main causes of LMS dissatisfaction – disappointment with the product, poor vendor relations and high cost of maintenance. Vendor’s roadmap: All LMS vendors have a product roadmap (at least all the good ones do) which reveals the current and upcoming plans.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 13, 2010

It advertised a product called iProf. I brought this up because some things strike me about this product/service. Services that combine content and devices with the ability to render it are fairly unique. Just like mobile telecom service providers will take a hit on the price of the hardware if you commit to a contract.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 13, 2011

Of all our products and services it was Upside2Go that interested most visitors. It’s a unique product and a lot of clients are just beginning to consider mobile learning. If you missed the exhibition and would like information or a demonstration of our products or services, get in touch with us at sales@upsidelearning.com.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Our new logo’s ‘U’ shape depicts our philosophy of putting YOU (our customers, employees and other stakeholders) first, and the arrow within that depicts our focus on growth through performance and learning, while the green color signifies the eco-friendly nature of our solutions and services.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Just as we expected this is probably the best show for the sort of products and services we offer. I’m happy as our cross-platform product Upside2Go is based on the same concept. Last week we were at Learning Technologies 2012 in London braving the winter chill here in London.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 3, 2012

Apple isn’t known to condone hackers modifying their products and software. When they started out, their hardware and software platforms were fairly open; as time has gone by, Apple has closed of its product/service ecosystems and removed much of that initial openness in favor of tight control (curation of sorts) over its platform.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Post the economic downturn, Training Companies the world over were revamping the way they operated and the services they offered to their customers. For its first requirement, UpsideLMS was setup as Dillon Productions ’ learning platform with a capability to create multiple portals for its customers.

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Upside Learning

MAY 28, 2012

The Worldwide Market for Mobile Learning Products and Services: 2010-2015 Forecast and Analysis. From netbooks and web applications to iPods, iPads, and podcasting, Tony has put together practical information for educators. Mobile Motivation: Mobile Learning Resources. Mobile Learning. 2010 Horizon Report. 2011 Horizon Report.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Balancing content delivered and the learning audience is one of the most delicate and important operations within LMS services. or can shed light on how applicable the services in the LMS are to your employees. Maintaining proper communication about new LMS from top executives to new employees is critical to the success of the LMS.

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 20, 2010

Having knowledge of a server side programming language like J2EE, PHP, or ASP.Net will certainly help as any reasonably sophisticated iPhone app will require communication with third party services for data. Knowledge of web services like Restful (for communication) and JSON for data interchange is an added plus.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

commented, “Our Top 20 Companies deliver the most innovative and often the most comprehensive suite of products and services in the marketplace. Speaking about the winners, Doug Harward, Chief Executive Officer of Training Industry, Inc.,

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Upside Learning

JULY 29, 2010

This is in line with the recently released Ambient Insight Report which forecasts US market for mobile learning products and services to be growing at a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.7%. I have always believed that mLearning will be the future of eLearning and have also written about it here.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 5, 2010

Play games (aka “challenges&# ), score points, and compete with your friends while improving your productivity with Office. Bloomfire – A cool service that’ll launch middle of the month. Check out the videos on the site explaining their service idea, should be interesting to use when it launches.

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 22, 2012

Here’s the list of questions asked and our thoughts on those: Q1: What are location based services? A: LBS are services that use the location information from your phone to provide pertinent, contextual information. We did not do very well in terms of answering the questions during the webinar but we’ll improve on that.

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Upside Learning

MAY 18, 2011

While India is a relatively poor country, more than 70 percent of its urban consumers already spend about $1 a month on content and services through offline, unorganized retail channels – a market estimated to be worth more than $4 billion annually. In fact, they consume an average of 4.5

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Upside Learning

JUNE 12, 2009

They need to be ready with new set of products and services (guess everything would be a ‘service’ in a few years in most cases!). We want to be at the forefront and be ready with new age products and services to help our customers. In fact the providers need to change before consumer organizations do.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 14, 2010

What services will help learners be more productive? Mobile technology lets learners access a variety of services. Try to list how such services can be used by learners, would they use it to call their mentors? If your answer is ‘yes’, mobile learning has great potential in meeting your learning need.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 1, 2009

we have now introduced a reseller program for the product and related services. Needless to say, Upside will provide all required marketing and sales support, sales training, regular product updates, etc. Following the recent release of UpsideLMS Version 4.0

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

This typically holds true for almost every service/product purchase we do; switching a product/service demands a different type of attention from a new purchase. This will indicate how focused the vendor is on the LMS as a product and service offering. The key point here is NOT to forget this is true.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 12, 2009

They need to be ready with new set of products and services (guess everything would be a ‘service’ in a few years in most cases!). We want to be at the forefront and be ready with new age products and services to help our customers. In fact the providers need to change before consumer organizations do.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 8, 2010

As our services in game design and development advance, we’re often asked how ‘social gaming’ paradigms can be used in learning games. Social game developers and studios use these to monetize their product, as learning designers we can use these to capitalize on learning.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

With over 100 clients in 12 countries, Upside Learning has been offering offshore based eLearning outsourcing development services and solutions for 6 years. Outsourcing arrangements enable you to reduce fixed costs and leverage the scalability of the service providers. It could be even more in some cases.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2010

At Upside, we strive to innovate in our product and service range, and find it’s a bit of a hit and miss affair. The eLearning industry has its roots in innovation, as a disruptive technology for education and training. It often makes me wonder, is there a set of rules we can use to foster innovation?

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2010

That would leave us to have constructive discussions about the nature of a product or service to meet their needs; instead of spending so much time educating them about the technology and its applications.

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Upside Learning

JULY 4, 2011

this discounts our current feature set) Disclaimer: these are just my personal and casual thoughts on the evolving nature of the product; it is no promise that such features will exist in the next version of Upside2Go , and do not represent Upside Learning’s point of view or future plan of action in anyway. technologies.

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Upside Learning

MAY 3, 2011

With the introduction of new mobile products such as the iPad, iPhone 4, Droid and Windows Phone 7, it is not surprising that mobile technology growth rates have quickly surpassed other digital technologies such as radio, television, personal computers and even the Internet. Find over 30 services which aid in mobile app development.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 25, 2010

These days, those things could range from information, objects, and activities to services and systems. The simplest sensor is a switch; buttons dominate our interaction with electromechanical products. Industrial designers are taught to design ‘things’ that engage people and facilitate their relationships with those things.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 11, 2010

Together, these results reflect our success in building a specialist position for ourselves in the Learning Solutions and Services domain. Successive recognitions also make a strong statement about the sustained quality of our solutions and products.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 28, 2011

What services will help learners be more productive? In this post General Considerations for Mobile Learning (mLearning) we lay down the questions that drive the decision to go for mobile learning: - Can you use mobile capabilities to enhance learning? Which of those capabilities would interest would-be learners?

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