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. The movement away from a linear development process can only be good for eLearning.

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Upside Learning

MAY 13, 2010

The most important feature is the integration with Adobe’s online service BrowserLab which is used to preview and test the content across various browsers. Dreamweaver CS5 comes with improved PHP support for custom classes. It also has code hinting structures for popular CMS like Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 5, 2012

The video shows an augmented reality concept that is integrated with Google’s services, with voice commands, video chat, location check-ins, maps (outside and in-store), weather, etc. As a learning designer, I’m thrilled with such advances and will eventually face the challenge of designing learning services using such technologies.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

The first inklings of this are already visible, in the form of search, discovery and sharing services such as Scoop.it Here is an entire list of such services. While these services are helping us deal with the information overload, they still rely on human users to generate the content that the services reference, rank and share.

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 30, 2017

Any major organisational change, whether it is to product/ service offerings, customer experience, internal processes, corporate strategy or company structure, happens over a span of time with impact to several roles.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Various elearning development companies are integrating the popular social media services like Twitter, YouTube etc. 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.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 1, 2014

We visited this region a couple of weeks back and observed a growing momentum towards custom elearning development services. It’s a key market for us and has been growing consistently. During our visit, we had an opportunity to meet with some leading eLearning […]. Upside Learning eLearning In Africa'

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Upside Learning

JULY 12, 2011

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. It led me to wonder about the evolving nature of such web services and applications.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 15, 2013

(Source: Ambient Insight’s 2010-2015 worldwide market forecast for Mobile Learning Products & Services). Mobile Learning Products & Services Revenue Forecast (in US$ millions). Source: Ambient Insight’s 2010-2015 worldwide market forecast for Mobile Learning Products & Services). 5-Year CAGR. Saudi Arabia.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 31, 2011

In my last post about Hassenzahl’s model , we looked at how users assign attributes to the product or service experience. These attributes differ from user to user, and hence each user has an unique experience with the product/service. The pragmatic attributes are about the practical usage and functions/features of the product/service.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 15, 2009

If you are considering to use streaming videos, you can have two options – either setup your own server by buying Flash Media Interactive Server OR use services from third-party content delivery network (CDN) companies partnered with Adobe if there are hundreds of high quality videos to be delivered and your viewership is high enough.

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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. this holds especially true in the information technology and enabled services area.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 10, 2010

A Cloud Based Video Encoding Service. The service uses Amazon’s S3 and Elastic Cloud to provide a proven and scalable solution to anyone or any business working with video. Signing up for Ankoder is free but it’s a pay-per-use service.

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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.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 19, 2016

It is a five dimensional model that can be used to determine the positioning of learning service providers/vendors based on 5 key parameters namely- Performance (includes market performance and customer performance), Potential (scope, capability and […].

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Upside Learning

JUNE 28, 2011

The results aggregated across a host of google services, and included pictures, video, and a lots more. It’s a strange and quirky way to look at search results. Stranger still there is no mention of this on Google’s blog. I love Lego, so that’s what I typed into the search box. Try it out, it’s cool!

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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

MAY 21, 2015

Scene: Sales meeting between executives of a leading learning service provider and an organisation planning to outsource its learning content development. Client: This year, for our Sales training program, we would like to have a game designed. Sales Manager: What exactly do you want in the game?

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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

MAY 7, 2015

As a leading provider of learning technology solutions, we often get questioned about the ‘quality’ of our solutions and services; what it means to us and how we ensure ‘great’ For us, quality begins from the very onset of the project.

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Upside Learning

JULY 14, 2011

As desktop computers and cloud services become more powerful,they are better able to crunch and represent numbers than is humanly possible. One such service that’s being talked about recently is visual.ly One emerging aspect of graphic design is the use of the visual tools to represent vast quantities of data.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 4, 2010

Ready to go as it’s a hosted service. Again, at the risk of sounding critical, SCORM Cloud is definitely a good service for companies/people whose current LMS may be so outdated that it doesn’t have SCORM compliance. So for companies using an LMS having SCORM compliance I am not sure what would be the real use of such a service.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 13, 2010

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. No related posts.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Cross checking against these causes can help you to determine if your new LMS delivers well on factors like feature/function/integration, service/support/continuity, and annual licensing/maintenance/overhead. Checklist against problem description. A peek into this will help you see how your LMS is chalked out to evolve in the coming months.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The Revolution No One Noticed: Mobile Phones and Multimobile Services in Higher Education. Mobile Services Taxonomy. Mobile Learning Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training. Marc Prensky Blog. M-Learning Org. Mobile Learning thinking: Get on your skateboard to keep up! Will at Work Learning. Futures of Learning. Kapp Notes.

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Mobile Learning Mobile Resources Augmented Reality 279

Upside Learning

APRIL 4, 2012

Note: Jason Clymer, VP (Sales) for North America at Upside Learning, who was slotted to co-host the webinar with Stacey Harris, VP, Research and Advisory Services at Brandon Hall Group, had to drop out due to a family emergency. Amit Gautam, Director of Technology Solutions at Upside Learning, filled in for Jason.

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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 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). Scalability issues, outdated features, complicated GUI, lack of technical support from the vendor – are just a few of the many reasons.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Upgrades & Support Services. Another way to smoothen the adoption process is to involve eLearning experts or Instructional designers, whom you can always outsource from any good consultancy service if you do not have them onboard. Options Research. Implementation. Each of the aforementioned factors is critical for LMS switching.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 21, 2012

This 1 hour session will be hosted by Jason Clymer, our VP (North America), and Stacey Harris, VP, Research and Advisory Services at Brandon Hall Group. They need to be provided with an experience that is intuitive, enjoyable, and personalized to their organization’s values and cultural preferences.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Google has announced Buzz a new social media service that would be integrated within Gmail. Using Buzz you can connect to the other social media services like Twitter, Picasa, Flickr and Google reader. It uses the WebGL canvas supported by modern browsers and is able to render hardware accelerated 3d graphics without any plugins.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Twitter is a fast growing and influential social networking service that is being leveraged as a great learning tool. Integration with the Twitter web service will make it easy to share information across domains. TWITTER INTEGRATION: Check if your LMS is capable of Twitter integration.

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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

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

DECEMBER 4, 2009

While they’re all keyed about mobile learning, they have serious reservations about how they (as telecom service providers) can leverage their own networks. WAP circumvents that by directly pushing content to the phone; as a service indicator or as a service loader. . I often point to some simple facts.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 10, 2010

There are a huge number of social media tools and services available, the ones mentioned here come from Jane’s list of Top 100 tools for learning of 2009 , compiled from numerous contributions from the world over. She covered the major tools that can be used to create a Social Learning Environment for free or at a low cost.

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