Upside Learning has entered into a channel partnership with TSC Innovation, a leader in visualize network wire and wireless communication, for Thailand. The partnership marks Upside Learning’s entry in this South Asian region and underlines its efforts to strengthen its partner network across the globe.

As a trusted Upside Learning channel partner, TSC Innovation will provide Upside Learning’s solutions portfolio comprising UpsideLMS, the best value Learning Management System, and Upside2Go, the revolutionary mobile learning platform, to its clients and prospects. TSC Innovation will also develop new business, deploy the system at the end client’s and provide first line support to the clients. Upside Learning will assist TSC Innovation in closing the sale through Sales, Marketing and Product support.

Speaking about the partnership, Amit Gautam, Director of Technology Solutions at Upside Learning, commented, “We are pleased to appoint TSC Innovation as our partner in Thailand. It has an excellent reputation in the communication field and will help us in representing Upside Learning well in this region. The combination of global expertise and solutions provided by Upside Learning and the local know how of TSC Innovation is a powerful one.”

About TSC Innovation

Located in Thailand, TSC Innovation Co.,Ltd. (Telesat) is a leader in visualize network wire and wireless communication. Since its inception in 1995, TSC’s corporate mission and commitment to excellence has been reflected in the quality of its products and high standard of service.

TSC offers quality WAN & ATM equipment, audio ” video communication, distant learning product, building automation system, security system, CCTV, business coordination and systemization, all satellite equipments and services.

Over the weekend of June 30 and July 01, we shifted from our Koregaon Park offices into new, larger premises in Warje, off the Pune-Bangalore highway. Our new office is spread out over 2 floors covering a total area of 14,000 square feet. We now have a combined seating capacity of 300, which is about three times that of our previous workplace.

At the same time, we have also upgraded our infrastructure to increase capacity and speed. The Warje office is set up with 24/7 high-speed Internet connectivity over 2 lines of 2 Mbps bandwidth each, with a backup line of 1 Mbps bandwidth. In order to promote better security, we have also installed a bio-metric attendance system to control access into the workspace. Meanwhile, the work areas are modern, spacious, and comfortable.

Upside Learning today is probably one of the fastest growing eLearning companies in India. This new space provides us the scalability options to meet the needs of our growing client list.

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The Fire Safety and Prevention custom content course created for Tooling University, Ohio, USA, was the winner of an Apex Grand Award in the Apex 2007 Awards for Publication Excellence.

The Apex Awards are presented annually to recognise excellence in graphic design, editorial content, and the ability to achieve overall communications excellence. Within these, the Apex Grand Awards specifically honor outstanding work in the main categories. This year, there were 223 entries in the Electronic and Video Publications category, out of which just 8 won Grand Awards. We are proud that Fire Safety and Prevention was one of these.

For us, the award is recognition that our instructional and visual design capabilities are truly world-class. The course was targeted at students enrolled in online classes with the aim of reinforcing their learning through engaging and interactive content. This was achieved by creating a job-realistic story and playing it out in a factory environment resembling that in real-life. As the story unfolded, students had to take decisions or resolve problems based on the situations; they were provided with feedback accordingly.

Upside Learning won two Awards of Excellence in the Apex 2008 Annual Awards for Publication Excellence Competition. These awards were for custom content solutions for Education & Training, under the Electronic & Video Publications category.

The winning entries were an interactive piece on Maritime Safety created for Walport International Ltd. (UK) and an eLearning module on Patient Safety developed for University HealthSystem Consortium (USA).

The piece on Maritime Safety aims to teach marine safety concepts to multinational crews of merchant ships. The presentation style uses an interplay of animated, cartoonish characters to drive home the key learning points, with a strong element of humor carried through the various scenes. Video clips have been integrated into the presentation to demonstrate the importance of safety at sea.

The module on Patient Safety was developed for the University HealthSystem Consortium (USA). Designed specifically for residents in training, it uses an actual medical case study and builds on it to teach key concepts related to patient safety at an application level. Rich graphics and character animations, together with a high degree of learner control, combine to create an engaging learning experience.

The Apex Awards are sponsored by the editors of Writing That Works, a newsletter published by Communications Concepts, Inc.
(www.apexawards.com). These awards are presented annually to recognise excellence in graphic design, editorial content, and the ability to achieve overall communications excellence. There are 11 major categories and 110 sub-categories. The Awards of Excellence recognise exceptional entries within these sub-categories. This year, there were 231 entries in the Electronic & Video Publications category. Of these, 15 won Awards of Excellence in the Education & Training sub-category – 2 of these winning entries were from Upside Learning.

June 2009 – Upside Learning emerged with winning entries in the Apex Annual Awards for Publication Excellence Competition for the third year running. This year, we won two Apex 2009 Awards of Excellence. These awards were for a white paper on adopting digital game-based learning, and a custom eLearning solution for potential Branch Managers of a major chain of builders merchants.

The white paper, “Do You Need Games In Your Elearning Mix?”, was entered in the Special Purpose Brochures, Manuals, and Reports sub-category of the Brochures, Manuals, and Reports category.

Recognizing that today’s workplace generation of gamers has different expectations, the white paper recommends the use of games to interest this learning audience. The author advocates casual games as a good first step for organization setting out to include games in their eLearning mix. He then goes on to describe several types of casual games and explains what kinds of learning they can help achieve. You can download a copy of the complete white paper from here.

The “Branch Manager Commercial Skills” eLearning solution was entered in the Web and Electronic Publications sub-category of the Electronic and Video Publications category.

Targeted at potential Branch Managers of a major builders merchants chain, it is presented within the context of a typical branch manager’s day, with a clear focus on practice and application of the skills and knowledge that a branch manager must possess. The program is game-like in approach. The learner, in the shoes of a branch manager, is set a challenge to earn a target amount of money for the branch by the end of the ‘day’. This can be achieved through good performance on quizzes for ‘activities’ undertaken by branch managers as a part of a normal working day.

The Apex Awards are sponsored by the editors of Writing That Works, a newsletter published by Communications Concepts, Inc.
(www.apexawards.com). These awards are presented annually to recognize excellence in graphic design, editorial content, and the ability to achieve overall communications excellence. This year, there were 11 major categories and 122 sub-categories. The Awards of Excellence recognize exceptional entries within these sub-categories.

This year’s competition had around 3785 entries in total. There were 378 entries in the Brochures, Manuals, and Reports category, out of which 21 won Awards of Excellence in the Special Purpose Brochures, Manuals, and Reports sub-category. The Video and Electronic Publications category had 193 entries, out of which 6 won Awards of Excellence in the Web and Electronic Publications sub-category.

With a view to reaching out to its global customer base, BMGI, a global performance excellence firm, had selected Upside Learning for localizing its eLearning courses.

BMGI’s eLearning programmes feature its industry-respected eBlack Belt, eGreen Belt, Lean Six Sigma eBlack Belt and Lean Six Sigma eGreen Belt certification programs, and a variety of eCourses, which are available individually or as a series.

Upside Learning assisted BMGI to convert its courseware content into various local languages so as to address the specific needs of its clients. Starting from identification of right resources for translation to the final delivery, the entire project process was managed efficiently by the company.

In the first stage, Upside Learning successfully converted courses from English into five languages – Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Turkish. The company ensured that the project was tested and analyzed accurately from time-to-time to convert courses so as to retain their meaning and intent.

“Our approach hinges on deep understanding of the content and the target audience so as to produce translations that are accurate and quick.” said Amit Garg, Director of Content Solutions.

Upside learning will also work on other languages in the future depending on BMGI’s requirements.

About BMGI

Founded in 1999 as a niche consultancy specializing in the implementation of Six Sigma, BMGI has since grown to be among the largest independent service providers within the broader organizational excellence space.

BMGI enables companies throughout the world to identify and solve their most important business problems, with a strong emphasis on sustainable results. BMGI’s services are grounded in one fundamental principle: structured problem solving. The company has developed solutions for a broad spectrum of businesses across many industries.

Few of BMGI’s clients are General Dynamics, TNT Express, Avis Budget Group, China Chemical, Graphic Packaging, Siemens, Hitachi and Philips Electronics.

Upside Learning’s interaction with its global clientele, in addition to, indications by the market forecasts point towards a rapid growth in the mLearning solutions market. The company has been experiencing a strong demand for mobile learning solutions over the past quarter and predicts mobile devices to become an important learning tool in the learning technology landscape, a verity reiterated at the recently concluded mLearnCon, held in San Diego.

Ambient Report forecasted US market for mobile learning products and services to be growing at a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.7%, showing a strong demand in mobile learning. The demand in other markets too is demonstrating similar trends. With a view to addressing this demand, the innovation team at Upside Learning has been taping onto the latest trends and developing new applications across various platforms such as Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian etc. The company now offers mobile audio-video podcasts, mobile quiz games, and m-learning nuggets for these devices, both as web and native apps. Back in April, Upside Learning developed the first Layar for an Indian city – Pune Layar (an Android-based augmented reality application). The company has also developed a mobile version of UpsideLMS, its flagship, multi-award-winning Learning Management System.