CIPD HRD Conference & Exhibition brings together the UK’s learning and development professionals to share best practices, learn from each other’s successes, network with suppliers, and get ready for the future of L&D. Participating for the 3^rd consecutive year in this mega event, to be held on 24^th & 25^th April, in Olympia, London, Upside Learning’s focus area will be ‘eLearning on iPads (Tablets)’.

Amongst the 32, knowledge–rich learning sessions planned for the event is Upside Learning’s session, titled ‘eLearning on iPads – Getting it right’, on 24^th April at 10 a.m. GMT. The session will be co–presented by the company’s Director of Custom Learning Solutions and Co–founder, Amit Garg, and Director – Client Solutions (Europe), Alan Samuel. The session will highlight the key factors in designing fresh eLearning for iPads and cost–effective solutions for ‘mEnabling’ existing eLearning courseware for iPads and other tablets. A few examples of Upside Learning’s clients using eLearning for iPads will also be touched upon.

At its stand #425, Upside Learning will exhibit its innovative Custom mLearning Solutions, including eLearning solutions for iPads (tablets), and UpsideLMS, its best–value Learning Management System. Attendees can also pick a complimentary copy of ‘Designing eLearning on iPads – 10 Bright Ideas’ from the stand.

Upside Learning will be participating in the soon to be held 2013 AITD National Conference as a Silver Sponsor. This participation marks the company’s debut at the prominent learning event, which is also the region’s largest conference for Learning & Development (L&D) and Human Resource Development (HRD) professionals.

While Upside Learning will be exhibiting its wide range of solutions and services at AITD, its key attraction would be an insightful learning session, titled ‘Designing eLearning for iPads (tablets)’, which will be delivered by Amit Garg, the company’s Director of Custom Learning Solutions & Co–founder, on 11^th April at 1.30 PM AEST. Through this session, attendees can learn about designing eLearning on iPads (tablets) and the best approaches and practices in ‘mEnabling’ existing eLearning courseware or creating new content for iPads or tablets.

Attendees can get a taste of the company’s innovative Custom mLearning Solutions, including eLearning solutions for iPads (tablets), and UpsideLMS, its best–value Learning Management System at stand #22. Complimentary copies of ‘Designing eLearning on iPads – 10 Bright Ideas’ will also be available at the stand

AITD National Conference is scheduled for 10^th & 11^th April and will be held in Melbourne, Australia.

Upside Learning, a leading provider of world–class learning technology solutions, celebrated its 9^th anniversary on 7^th April. Commemorating its achievements over all these years, the company has used one of the latest web design techniques – motion parallax scrolling – to highlight its 9 Glorious Years of Learning in a unique and stunning way.

Co–founded in 2004 by Amit Garg and Amit Gautam, Upside Learning has emerged as a prominent and leading provider of innovative learning technology solutions to organisation across the world in a brief span of 9 years. The last year too has been quite successful for the company. It recorded over 125% growth for its best value Learning Management System, UpsideLMS, and a staggering 97% YOY growth for Q1–Q2 in FY 2012.

Drawing on its partnerships with several leading companies, Upside Learning extended its presence and learning portfolio in many new regions across the continents during the last year. To strengthen its presence in the UK and Europe further, the company established its independent office in the UK and appointed a Director–Client Solutions for Europe.

On the solutions and services front, Upside Learning introduced custom eLearning development services for iPads and other tablets, and mEnablement services for mobile devices including smartphones and tablets. It also integrated Tin Can API, a latest compliance standard, into its proprietary courseware framework for custom learning solutions (for desktops and mobile devices).

Underlining the company’s commitment towards delivering value were awards. Upside Learning won two Brandon Hall Awards; a silver for Upside2Go, its revolutionary mLearning platform, and another for one of its Custom Learning Project, totaling its award count to more than 30.

The company also marked its presence at several premiere learning events like ASTD ICE, AITD National Conference, CIPD HRD, LearnX, mLearnCon, ASTD TechKnowledge, Learning Technologies etc., where it participated in various capacities; as an exhibitor, showcasing its wide range of solutions and services, and as a session presenter, delivering learning sessions. Webinars on topics like Mobile Learning, eLearning on iPads and Learning Management System were conducted throughout the year, while two free eBooks – one on LMS Switching and other on Mobile Learning – were published in November and April 2012, respectively. Recently, the company also released an infographic explaining why mobile learning is the future of workplace learning.

Upside Learning has recently enrolled in Towards Maturity’s Ambassador Programme. With this association the company has joined the league of 19 leading learning organisation to provide free industry benchmark research to improve the business impact of learning technologies.

The Ambassador Programme by Towards Maturity, the internationally recognised benchmarking practice for learning innovation, has been designed for provider companies of learning products and services focused on excellence and growth. This programme complements Towards Maturity’s work with learning practitioners, as the producers of Europe’s leading independent Benchmark Study into the impact of learning innovation on business performance. It enables providers, through supporting the study, to help with the identification and dissemination of good practice case studies, and to align themselves with Towards Maturity’s vision and values; benefiting from enhanced industry profile and credibility with clients and potential clients.

Talking about supporting Towards Maturity, Amit Garg, Director of Custom eLearning Solutions at Upside Learning commented, “Upside Learning helps organisation perform better by effective use of learning technologies. We continually innovate our products and services to stay relevant and competitive. We’ve been impressed by the industry benchmark reports from Towards Maturity, which effectively help organisation to identify and adopt best practices in workplace learning. As an Ambassador, we are proud to support Towards Maturity in its initiatives.”

About Towards Maturity

Towards Maturity is a benchmarking company that provides independent expert advice and support to help organisation use learning technologies to accelerate business performance. It leverages the data of its in-depth Benchmark Study, the UK’s largest learning technology benchmark, gathered by Towards Maturity over 9 years with over 1800 organisation.

To learn more about the company, visit https://learningnews.com/learning-companies/towards-maturity

Upside Learning announced today that it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Naizak Global Engineering Systems, KSA. This new partnership, which is in line with both the organisation’ interest, will enable Upside Learning to bring innovative learning solutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through NAIZAK’s strong foot prints.

As a part of this partnership, Naizak and Upside Learning will work together to assist organisation in increasing their learning and training effectiveness, and improving human performance and potential through customised learning solutions, which are closely aligned to the client’s business objectives. The solutions and services covered under the purview of this agreement include consulting, on-premise services, learning platforms, assessment engines, blended learning solutions, rapid learning, mobile learning solutions, and custom eLearning programs.

“Our partnership with Naizak is a significant step towards reaching out to organisation in the KSA. Naizak has been playing a lead role in the growth of the national economy, and our association with Naizak could not have come at a better time. We believe that this partnership hinges on both, NAIZAK’s local acquaintance, goodwill and vast experience, and our award-winning solutions and expertise in the learning domain.”, explains Amit Gautam, Director of Technology Solutions at Upside Learning.

About Naizak Global Engineering Systems

Naizak Global Engineering Systems is an engineering & IT conglomerate providing specialised services to the Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Electrical, Power and IT companies. Established in 1998, it is a subsidiary of Al Abdulkarim Holding Group and has a wide coverage in the Middle East, Asia & Europe with help of its partner companies. Naizak maintains a network of offices in Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates through the Abdulkarim Trading Establishment.

Naizak has built strong foot prints in Kingdom’s corporate world and enjoys privilege relationships by providing right mix of solutions to their clients. NAIZAK utilises these partnerships to keep the processes and knowledge at the highest level across all paradigms.

Its major areas of focus are Industrial & Petroleum Eng. Services, Enterprise Solutions, Telecommunication and Training & Education.

To learn more, visit http://www.naizak.com/

Upside Learning, which began as a boot–strapped startup 8 years back, has come a long way since. It is one of the leaders in the learning solutions space offering award winning products and services. Today its offerings reach over 200 clients worldwide include the USA, the UK, Canada, Latin America, Ireland, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Australia, Singapore, China, South Africa, and India.

The past year has been a very successful one for Upside Learning. Both its products – the Learning Management System – UpsideLMS and the revolutionary mobile learning platform – Upside2Go, won a Brandon Hall award each. In addition it received a Silver in the Learning in Practice Awards by CLO magazine and two 2011 Apex Awards of Excellence for its marketing team.

UpsideLMS has seen a strong growth (approx. 200%) in its client base and Upside2Go has had a successful beginning it its first full year of existence.

The company also released new versions of its products during the year. Upside2Go for BlackBerry was released in October 2011 and then for Android in February 2012. UpsideLMS Arabic version was released in October 2011, which was followed by the release of the latest version of UpsideLMS, version 5.0, in Feb 2012.

Riding on the increasing popularity of UpsideLMS and Upside2Go, and with a view to increase its footprint across the world Upside Learning announced a comprehensive partnership program for these products and have signed up new partners in various parts of the world.

As a part of its continued growth strategy and to be present closer to its client base, Upside Learning appointed a VP Sales for North America in 2011. Further, to support the growth demands and future plans, as a result of new associations in several geographies across the globe, the company augmented its team by approx. 20% over the last 2 quarters.

In last 12 months the company has increased its participation in online and offline trade events. It exhibited in trade shows like the CIPD HRD, ASTD TechKnowledge, ASTD ICE, mLearnCon, Learning Technologies, World of Learning. It also hosted a webinar titled ‘Learner Driven Learning Management System in a Global Environment’, in association with Brandon Hall. The company plans to conduct many such webinars, in association with renowned bodies like ASTD, eLearning Guild, Brandon Hall, in this year.

CIPD HRD 2012’s learning and networking, to be held at Olympia London on April 25^th and 26^th, will see over 60 free learning sessions being delivered by leading exhibitors. The sessions are divided into 4 distinct areas, namely Topic Tasters, Learning Arena, HRD Interactive and Technology for Learning, each featuring sessions on the latest in L&D. Under ‘Technology for Learning’ area, Upside Learning will be delivering a session on Mobile Learning, titled ‘Implementing Mobile Learning In Workplace – Benefits, Strategy& Success Factors’. This session will be held on the concluding day of the conference and exhibition i.e. 26^th April at 10.15 a.m. BST.

The use of mobiles devices for learning in workplace is growing. Some organisation have already implemented mobile learning while some are still in the planning stages. Many organisation are, however, unaware about the key elements to consider and how to best utilise the available tools to maximise the impact and ROI for their company while implementing a mLearning solution. Upside Learning will build on its experience and expertise in developing and implementing mobile learning for various organisation, and share insights on making the most of mLearning initiatives.

Besides this, visitors can also visit Upside Learning’s booth (#671) to get a taste of some of the company’s wide range of mobile learning offerings including Upside2Go the revolutionary platform for Mobile Learning available on iOS, BlackBerry and Android. The company’s representatives will be present at booth (#671) throughout the event. To pre-arrange a meeting with a member of the Upside Learning team, interested attendees can send an email specifying the preferred time and date to sales@upsidelearning.com

Upside Learning, today, has released a new eBook on mLearning, ‘Mobile Learning: A Quick Start Guide’. This release is in line with the company’s developments in the mLearning domain. While this is one of the key reasons why Upside Learning chose Mobile Learning as the topic for the eBook, another important reason was that the use of mobile devices and technology for learning and information access is rapidly gaining ground across the world. Mobile technology is now finding widespread acceptance as a training and learning device in the workplace as well. But, training departments are unsure how to implement a successful mLearning strategy.

Using its experience and expertise in developing mobile learning solutions, Upside Learning has written an eBook that will help L&D and training professionals understand when to use, how to design, develop and implement mLearning in a way that works for their organisation. The eBook will also cover the strategy part – listing the basics and then going on to elaborate the method to choose the right technologies for an organisation’s learning need and how to implement them effectively.

Some topics that the readers can look forward to reading about in the eBook are:

• Understanding mLearning
• Key Considerations in Mobile Learning
• The Basics of mLearning Strategy
• Determining mLearning Strategy
• The Technical Approach

The eBook has been co-authored by Amit Garg and Abhijit Kadle. Amit is the Director of Custom Learning Solutions and Abhijit is the Sr. Manager – Instructional Design at Upside Learning.

A complimentary copy of the eBook, ‘Mobile Learning: A Quick Start Guide’, can be obtained from http://bit.ly/mlearning-guide. Also, attendees at Upside Learning’s booth (#671) at CIPD HRD 2012 will also be entitled to a free copy of this eBook.

In today’s day and age where mobile devices and mobile technologies have become ubiquitous in nearly every aspect of our daily lives, it’s no surprise that Mobile Learning is emerging as the future of learning. And one company that has made robust investments in this new learning media is Upside Learning. At the upcoming CIPD HRD 2012 expo, to be held on 25^th and 26^th April at Olympia, London, the company’s focus on mobile learning will be evident as it exhibits its wide range of mobile learning solutions.

Visitors at Upside Learning’s booth (#671) can get a taste of some of the company’s wide range of custom mobile learning offerings that include micro courses, quizzes and games, mbooks, mobile videos, augmented reality apps and custom mobile apps for different smartphones and tablets. Upside2Go, Upside Learning’s revolutionary platform for Mobile Learning available on iOS, BlackBerry and Android, will also be on display.

Visitors can also check out Upside Learning’s Custom eLearning Solutions and the recently released version (version 5.0) of its two-time Brandon Hall award-winning Learning Management System – UpsideLMS.

Attendees at the expo can also attend a session on mobile learning to be delivered by Amit Garg, Director of Custom eLearning Solutions at Upside Learning. Titled ‘Implementing Mobile Learning In Workplace – Benefits, Strategy & Success Factors’, this session will be held on the concluding day of the conference and exhibition i.e. 26^th April at 10.15 a.m. BST.

The company’s representatives will be present at booth (#671) throughout the event. To pre-arrange a meeting with a member of the Upside Learning team, send an email specifying your preferred time and date to sales@upsidelearning.com