Upside Learning, a leading provider of learning technology solutions, announced today, that it has been named as a ‘Core challenger’ in Fosway’s 9-Grid for bespoke solutions and providers in the UK/European market, a step to the fore from its previous year listing as potential challenger.

Upside Learning is now considered a core challenger, with lower TCO and reasonable presence in the bespoke learning solutions market. This market positioning greatly owes to its wide range of learning solutions that include, Custom eLearning, Custom mLearning, FRED, Rapid Learning, Translation and Localisation, Multi-device Testing Lab and Consulting services.

Over the years Upside Learning, an organisation with its operation base in India, has increased its global reach by acting as a great outsourcing partner to many renowned companies. Its comparatively low cost, custom development and robust project management approach has been appreciated in many instances by its clients.

About the Fosway 9-Grid

The Fosway Group 9-Grid report for bespoke learning solutions is a multi-dimensional model that can be used to understand the relative position of solutions and providers in the UK/European market. It allows you to compare different solutions based on their Performance, Potential, Market Presence, Total Cost of Ownership and Future Trajectories across the market.

The 2016 Fosway Group 9-Grid- Bespoke Learning Solutions can be seen here-
http://www.fosway.com/9-grid/bespoke-elearning/

Upside Learning kick-starts 2016 with a Learning and Skills Group Webinar, titled ‘Creating Engaging eLearning for the Multi-device World’, to be presented LIVE by Amit Garg on Thursday, February 25, at 10:00 AM London time.

Amit Garg, Upside Learning’s Co-founder & Director-Custom Learning Solutions, is a thought leader in the learning and development sphere with keen interest in mLearning and multi-device learning. A regular on the ‘Top Ten e-learning Movers and Shakers’ list, he consults and helps organisations in taking wiser decisions in their learning and development programmes. Having seen the evolving technology landscape and learner needs, Amit understands the need for learner-centric content that is not just engaging but available on a range of devices (and different combinations of browsers, operating systems, connectivity modes and platforms) too.

Leveraging his 13+ years experience in the learning solutions domain and Upside Learning’s length and breadth of experience and expertise in designing and delivering various custom eLearning, mLearning projects, Amit will share insights on creating engaging multi-device eLearning in the one hour webinar.

Key takeaways:

• The multi-device world
• Types of multi-device experience
• The shift in learning scenario
• Steps to creating engaging eLearning

The webinar is free to LSG members and non-members alike, and aims to provide a unique opportunity to interact with Amit and get all queries pertaining to multi-device eLearning design and development answered.

Creating Engaging eLearning for the Multi-device World

Speaker: Amit Garg, Co-founder and Director-Custom Learning Solutions

February 25 | 10:00 AM GMT Attend

Meat and Livestock Australia, a company that delivers marketing, and research and development services for Australia’s cattle, sheep and goat producers, introduced a Collaborative Marketing Program. As a pre-requisite to which, company representatives needed to complete a marketing workshop with MLA.

The program aimed to assist brand marketers create customer loyalty and sustainable brand growth, through investment that delivers ongoing value for the brand and the industry. To widen their reach in much lesser time, an eLearning approach was suggested, which could be instantly accessed by anyone with a computer and an internet connection. For MLA’s first eLearning project, a coursework had to be developed so that representatives could learn how to register for the Collaborative Marketing program and create their own annual marketing strategy, activity proposals and reports.

Keeping in mind that the target audience for the course consisted of people mainly with a farming background, and have a very basic knowledge of computers, Upside Learning created a Flash-based multi-module demonstrative course on what the Collaborative Marketing program was, and the steps on how to create an annual marketing strategy, activity proposals, budget summaries and reports. The course contained a simulation of the procedures to fill out and create each of the requests, using actual examples.

About MLA
Meat & Livestock Australia Limited (MLA) delivers marketing and research and development services for Australia’s cattle, sheep and goat producers. MLA creates opportunities for livestock supply chains from their combined investments to build demand and productivity and also provides services, tools and information that create tangible benefits for livestock producers that flow back to the farm gate.

Upside Learning, a leading provider of learning technology solutions made a big impression at the Learning Technologies 2014 event in London, last month.

Visitors and delegates rated Upside Learning as the No. 1 company with which they “had the most profitable conversation with”. The feedback was testimony to the quality and range of learning solutions, demos and consultations that the Upside team showcased on an eye catching and attractive ‘green’ stand.

Amit Garg, Director and co-founder of Upside Learning and Alan Samuel, Director Director UK&EU presented seminars on ‘Mobile & Tablet Learning Case Studies From Around The World’ and ‘Keep Learning – How Can We (In Learning) Enable & Facilitate This’?, that were both well attended and received with attendees saying that they found them to be “useful, extremely relevant and thought provoking”.

Upside’s innovative and useful handout, “9 Tips on Mobile Implementation in the workplace”, caught the visitor’s attention, who rated Upside as the 5^th company (of the 250+ there) whose material they remembered putting into their show bags!

The recently concluded expos at Las Vegas (ASTD TechKnowledge 2012) and London (Learning Technologies 2012), where Upside Learning was an exhibitor, saw hordes of visitors representing a wide cross section of the learning industry including Instructional Designers, eLearning developers, L&D Managers, CEOs and HR executives, walk in at the show to get the ‘flavor’ of the show. And the flavor, undoubtedly, was mobile learning. Not just the visitors, all the major players in the UK-EU and the US market too showcased their mobile learning solutions with a number of free sessions focused on mobile learning.

Having been in the mobile learning domain for over 3 years now, Upside Learning has developed a good understanding of the domain and its technologies. Based on this, the company has noticed and indicated some key factors which will stand as obstacles delaying the customer adoption of mobile learning:

• What is mLearning most suitable for?
• How to go about implementing an mLearning strategy?
• Which platforms / devices should be targeted?
• Which way to go – native apps, web apps, or HTML5?
• What sort of tracking requirements are there (if any)?
• How to convert existing eLearning to mLearning?
• Should new projects be developed such they work on PCs, Tablets, and Mobile Phones?

Irrespective of this, one thing that is clear, and has been observed by Upside Learning, is while mobile learning has been on the horizon for many years now, it looks like it’s time has finally come.

Upside Learning had exhibited its 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. The main attraction, however, was Upside2Go, Upside Learning’s revolutionary platform for Mobile Learning available on iOS, Android and BlackBerry. It is a mobile ecosystem that combines formal training, informal, social, and collaborative learning.

For more details on Upside Learning’s mobile learning solutions, visit https://upsidelearning.com/mobile-learning/

Upside Learning, a recognised leader in training outsourcing, LMS solutions, custom eLearning development & mobile learning solutions, is showcasing its range of learning technology and business solutions at ASTD TechKnowledge 2011. The expo, which opened its doors on 2nd February, has seen a commendable number of visitors from various walks of the learning and technology space on its first day itself.

Upside Learning, a silver sponsor of the event, is demonstrating its latest offerings in custom eLearning, LMS and mobile learning. Attendees will also get an opportunity to exchange knowledge on latest solutions and discuss their learning challenges with the Upside Learning team.

The expo will also serve as a launch platform for Upside Learning’s revolutionary mobile learning solution – Upside2Go. The formal unveiling of the product will take place on 3rd February at 1.00 PM (PST) by Amit Gautam, Director of Technology Solutions at Upside Learning. Visitors can look forward to getting a first-hand experience of Upside2Go in the live environment.

Also, as a part of the company’s special expo offer, visitors to the Upside Learning booth (#504) will get a chance to win a learning package worth USD 12,500! This includes 1 year FREE access to Upside2Go [with an option to access UpsideLMS (integrated with Upside2Go) for 1 year] with 10 video courses (from 50Lessons) for up to 100 users.

Amit Gautam, Director of Technology Solutions at Upside Learning said, “The first day at ASTD TechKnowledge 2011 was gratifying to say the least. To rub shoulders with some of the big names in eLearning domain is always an incredible learning experience. We are looking forward to unveiling our revolutionary mobile learning solution amidst such a rich crowd.”

For more information on the latest in learning, technology and innovation, attendees are encouraged to reach Upside Learning’s representatives at Booth No. 504 throughout the event.