Upside Learning

MAY 31, 2012

There are currently 112 million Internet users (88 million urban dwellers, and 24 million more from rural villages) in India, out of which 90 million are active users; 240 million Indians accessed the Internet on their mobile phones last year; 20 million Indians look for job openings on the Internet every month; 54 million Indians check online reviews (..)

Internet 230

Internet Social Media Mobile Association 230

Upside Learning

JUNE 24, 2009

In putting this list together, I worked with Tony Karrer and his eLearning Learning site extensively to match links that are popular based on social signals, specifically in the Games and Simulation categories. Social Sites, Design, Informal Learning, & Brain Games, May 4, 2009. Training Games, June 12, 2007.

Games 280

Games Resources Simulations PDF 280

Upside Learning

JUNE 24, 2009

In putting this list together, I worked with Tony Karrer and his eLearning Learning site extensively to match links that are popular based on social signals, specifically in the Games and Simulation categories. Social Sites, Design, Informal Learning, & Brain Games, May 4, 2009. Training Games, June 12, 2007.

Games 280

Games Resources Simulations PDF 280

Upside Learning

JANUARY 31, 2012

With the License Management moved to the Site Admin level in UpsideLMS’ 3 tier architecture (consisting of Learner, Admin and Site Admin), the process of assigning curriculums to multiple clients from the same setup has become extremely easy. Further, the learner can also enjoy the freedom to move widgets freely across the dashboard.

Calendar 189

Calendar LMS Version FAQ 189

Upside Learning

JANUARY 20, 2011

Topic Hubs are sites that aggregate content from a variety of sources, organizes that content around keywords in the topic domain. I have listed some of them below for my fellow rookie Instructional Designers. www.elearninglearning.com – eLearning Learning is a collection of blog posts and articles all around eLearning. www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/

Instructional Design 262

Instructional Design Instructional Instruction Beginner 262

Upside Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2009

.’ Get into the description and you find it’s about building games on top of video submissions, making it sound that Google plans to extend its YouTube site into an associated gaming site. MIT’s Scratch.

Second Life 171

Second Life eLearning Firefox Mac 171

Upside Learning

AUGUST 24, 2010

The site features 12 videos by educators explaining what works and what does not in our education system. Thanks to a tweet from @ChrisLAtkinson I reached this blog post and from there the 21 st Century Education website. They argue what should be done to actually deliver 21 st century education. Below are a couple of those videos.

Education 202

Education Internet Tagging Mobile 202

Upside Learning

MARCH 22, 2011

31 Of My Favorite Digital Storytelling Sites. Here are 31 digital storytelling sites that you would want to check. As technology continues to grow, the reading preferences amongst people tend to bend towards the e-Books, which are easy to find and most importantly, easy to share.

Media 239

Media Learning Technologies iPad Technology 239

Upside Learning

APRIL 1, 2010

To play, teams must find and log clues hidden throughout the conference and on affiliated social media sites. Clues are hidden throughout the conference and on affiliated social media sites. The Social section of this site will allow you to connect with other players. The highlight for me was Matt Mason.

Games 178

Games Simulations Blended Learning Metrics 178

Upside Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Students also regularly use digital media like blogs, Skype and a custom-made social networking site to create projects and share their ideas with their classmates.

Social Networks 198

Social Networks Skype Social Network Instructional Design 198

Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Founder of the World Wide Web says that some of the most successful social networking sites ‘have begun to chip away at its principles’, reports this article on Guardian. Read it here. 250+ Places For Free Books Online.

Social Networks 199

Social Networks Google Docs Technology Learning Technologies 199

Upside Learning

JULY 14, 2011

a site that promises to take your data and provide a push-button approach to to help you visualize it. Tufte’s famous work ‘The Visual Design of Quantitative Information ‘ shows many of the principles these programs use to visualize data. One such service that’s being talked about recently is visual.ly

Tools 189

Tools Instructional Design Twitter Pattern 189

Upside Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Facebook – social networking site. Slideshare – presentation hosting and sharing tool. Skype – instant messaging and VoIP call tool. Google Reader – RSS feed reader. Wordpress – blogging tool. Moodle – course management system. Some observations: The top 10 is like a who’s who of social and informal learning tools.

Social Networks 259

Social Networks Survey VoiceThread Tools 259

Upside Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2010

20 Sites For Young Learners. This article has a great list of sites including blogs, curriculum resources, play and video games for children. Check eight predictions in this article from Mark Suster via Tech Crunch. Read it here. Let’s Play! Play is an important part of development. Read it here. 10 Books Of Visual Ideas.

Social Networks 199

Social Networks Wiki Learning Technologies Technology 199

Upside Learning

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Why I Like This Site. Though these games aren’t complex science games, they still require a basic knowledge of concepts such as gravity and force. Each of these games is free and can be easily (and legally) embedded into any blog or website. It is also a wonderful resource for problem solving activities to be used in training sessions.

Games 238

Games Simulations Website Flash 238

Upside Learning

JULY 14, 2010

After the workshop I did some more research about this project and some of what I present below is from a couple of.pdfs about the same project found at Brandon Hall and Masie Learning sites. Dana Alan Koch, learning strategist at Accenture, suggests doing a self evaluation if m-learning is right for you.

Learning Strategy 235

Learning Strategy Brandon Hall Case Study ADL 235

Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

In 2009, several new tools were added including the popular microblogging service Twitter and other popular social networking sites like Linkedin, Facebook, and MySpace. In order to maintain the integrity of all comparisons, all those tools studied in the first two studies were included in this followup research.

Social Media 193

Social Media Social Networks Media Social 193

Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In putting this list together, I used Tony Karrer’s eLearning Learning site extensively to match links that are also popular based on social signals. Learning Light E-learning Center. 7 Things You Should Know About Location-Aware Applications. It gives more balance to what just might have been the results a one-sided trawling of the web.

Mobile Learning 279

Mobile Learning Mobile Resources Augmented Reality 279

Upside Learning

MAY 28, 2010

The question is not warranted given the features it describes clearly on its information site, but I did hear some murmur around a new LMS being launched by Google. Of course, there is no limit to what I would think a system like that could include – e.g. my first thought was whether it supported SCORM or any other standard like that.

Google Docs 225

Google Docs Platform Google Calendar LMS 225

Upside Learning

MARCH 11, 2010

Socialight – With their new Socialight Community Platform, anyone can create networks which are accessible via the web, a WAP site or an iPhone app. To put it more plainly, the Android NDK r3 gives developers more options to take advantage of an Android device’s powers, especially in the graphics department.

Server 187

Server iPhone iPad eLearning 187

Upside Learning

MARCH 26, 2009

I’ll be adding that as a comment to this post as soon it’s up on the site. The PDF for the paper is available here. It will also be serialized as HTM pages that can be accessed through the Upside Learning website. I hope this paper will help organizations consider casual games as serious and appropriate learning tools.

Adoption 203

Adoption Adopt Games Digital 203

Upside Learning

JUNE 4, 2009

Her site, Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies , has some wonderful resources on learning tools, social learning, and more. As most resposes on Jane’s site list tools for personal learning, I am keen to learn what you are using for creating learning solutions for others? My Twitter id: www.twitter.com/gargamit100.

Tools 208

Tools Dreamweaver Adobe Flash 208

Upside Learning

MARCH 5, 2010

Check out the videos on the site explaining their service idea, should be interesting to use when it launches. Let’s anyone create a course, let’s anyone take it. It allows for a large number of informal, social-learning opportunities can be dedicated to any subject.

eLearning 174

eLearning Performance Support Write Blog Streaming 174

Upside Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2010

As an interesting aside, the book comes with a companion site [link] where Dr. Woodill continues to post furthering the content in the book. Employees learn through active experiences that involve their senses and their bodies. Employees learn best in concrete situations where the context matters to them.

Mobile Learning 202

Mobile Learning Mobile Learning Picture 202

Upside Learning

JUNE 13, 2012

This eliminates the need of the trainer to travel on-site to multiple locations, which is an expensive and time consuming affair. With web conferencing tools like Webex, Goto-Meeting, etc., the trainer can deliver a learning session as a part of the blended learning approach even from a remote location.

Blended Learning 259

Blended Learning Blended LMS Virtual Classroom 259

Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

If you’re in India and think you have an idea that can make a difference to vocational education, you should definitely check out the NSDC site and apply for funding. One caveat though, they’re looking for ideas that can make a difference to tens of thousands individuals; so your idea must have potential for large scale.

Blended Learning 195

Blended Learning CLO Corporate eLearning Upgrade 195

Upside Learning

MARCH 8, 2010

Twitter has become the number 1 tool for learning in just three years – voted by hundreds of learning professionals in this survey at Jane Hart’s site. In a couple of years, microblogging tools have become very popular. You could even search for information on these tools themselves and get some good links to follow.

Case Study 252

Case Study Yammer Webcast Twitter 252

Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Today there are hundreds of apps for education available on the Apple Appstore – here’s a big list of iPhone apps for education.

Mobile 269

Mobile Change Training Train 269

Upside Learning

JUNE 18, 2010

Surveys : You could use sites like www.polleverywhere.com to create instant surveys that people could respond to from their mobiles (or web) via SMS. Women who sign up for the service by texting BABY to 511411 receive three free SMS text messages each week timed to their due date or baby’s date of birth.

Mobile Learning 241

Mobile Learning Blended Learning Mobile Performance Support 241

Upside Learning

DECEMBER 7, 2010

This article talks about Defense Acquisition University (DAU) where games have grown from being closely aligned with both the learning objectives and the context of the acquisition workforce to the launch of the first Department of Defense casual gaming site. Read it here. eLearning Conferences 2011 : eLearning Technology.

Flash to HTML5 Conversion 208

Flash to HTML5 Conversion Media Flash Player Learning Technologies 208

Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

To use the library you will need your own consumer key and secret for the Yammer API available from Yammer’s developer site. The as3yammerlib is hosted on GitHub and the source code is publicly available. The library is also dependent on the as3corelib for doing JSON parsing and as3-signals for broadcasting events.

Yammer 174

Yammer Social Networks eLearning HTML 174

Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

It’s an HTML5 video player that will allow you to easily embed videos in any page, blog or site using the latest modern web standards. The OCS can be connected to a network that is also connected to the Internet, which allows students to search the OCS and the Internet simultaneously. SublimeVideo [HTML5 Video Player].

Flash to HTML5 Conversion 174

Flash to HTML5 Conversion Open Source Player Server 174

Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Earlier today, I stumbled on this bit of research on the Gartner site; while it dates back to August there’s some interesting speculation about the Future of Work. People will swarm more often and work solo less. They’ll work with others with whom they have few links, and teams will include people outside the control of the organization,”. “In

Gartner 272

Gartner Simulations Social Networks Pattern 272

Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Seems like, the war between social networking sites is far from over. 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’. Talking of war, a tablet war has been set out by developers as they vouch for their favorite platforms and devices.

Social Networks 233

Social Networks Learning Technologies Media Technology 233

Upside Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2011

For more information on stakeholder engagement methods and tactics, these are some sites I found helpful: [link]. Prior to doing that, though, I will leave you with this thought, and it’s not monumental–put yourself in their shoes, understand what is important to them, and allow them a voice in that regard. Now, go learn something!

LMS 188

LMS vendor Communication Project 188

Upside Learning

MARCH 31, 2010

Casual Game Design – An old site, now dysfunctional, it remains one of my personal favorites, this blog gives great insights into casual games. Applied Game Design – Wonderful posts on game and interaction design; definitely recommended.

Games 229

Games Blogging Design Write Blog 229

Upside Learning

DECEMBER 10, 2009

However Gears will continue to be supported for sites that already use it. Also As much of the technology in Gears, including offline support and geo-location APIs, are being incorporated into the HTML5 spec as an open standard supported across browsers, it is natural for Google to Drop Gears in favor of HTML5. Interactive Video.

Blended Learning 147

Blended Learning iPod Mac eLearning 147