Upside Learning, a leading provider of learning technology solutions, has won the prestigious 2014 APEX Award for Publication Excellence in the Education & Training Electronic Media category. This award takes the company’s tally to 8 APEX awards in 7 years.

Now in its 26^th year, the APEX annual awards recognise excellence in graphic design, editorial content and overall communications effectiveness for print, web, electronic & social media. Upside Learning’s winning entry was an informative and educational game, titled ‘Information and Data Protection game’. The objective of the game was to help learners understand potential security breaches and Data Protection Principles in the workplace. The game’s learning environment consisted of a virtual office wherein the learners had to spot various security hazards by exploring the office and carefully listening to the conversations between individual characters.

About APEX Awards

APEX is the Annual Awards for Publication Excellence Competition. It is open to communicators in corporate, nonprofit and independent settings. This is the 26th annual APEX, which began in 1988.

APEX is sponsored by the editors of Writer’s Web Watch, an e-newsletter for communicators who write, edit and manage business publications. Writer’s Web Watch is published by Communications Concepts, Inc., providing problem-solving information to professional communicators since 1984.

The Towards Maturity Ambassador Programme, a programme designed for provider companies of learning products and services, enables providers to help with the identification and dissemination of good practice case studies, and to align themselves with Towards Maturity’s vision and values. Upside Learning, a leading provider of workplace learning solutions, which had enrolled in this programme last year, has recently renewed its membership for another year.

Currently consisting of 21 leading learning organisation (ambassadors), the Ambassador Programme complements Towards Maturity’s work with learning practitioners, as the producers of Europe’s leading independent Benchmark Study. As one of these ambassadors, Upside Learning had extended its support to the Benchmark Study last year and will be doing it this year for its 2013 Study too.

The 2013 Towards Maturity Benchmark will build on the 2012 research, but will now seek expert feedback to ensure that the benchmark findings provide maximum value to the community (ambassadors, employers and providers). It aims to provide independent advice and support in applying learning innovation to accelerate business performance and deliver more for less.

While the personalized benchmark report is valued at £300, individuals and organisation participating in the survey before 12th July 2013, can get FREE feedback due to the support of Upside Learning and other ambassadors who share Towards Maturity’s passion for ensuring that independent advice is freely available to all. The participants will also get immediate access to 3 new In-Focus reports on topics like Mobile Learning, Aligning your Learning Strategy to Business and Helping individuals Practice and Perform at the end of this study. Additional details about the 2013 Benchmark Study can be found at-https://www.e-assessment.com/news/towards-maturity-benchmarking/

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

mLearnCon 2011, an annual mobile learning conference and expo organised by eLearning Guild, will be held in San Jose, CA from 21^st June to 23^rd June. And participating here is Upside Learning, a globally recognised leader in training outsourcing, Custom eLearning Development, Learning Management System and Mobile Learning Solutions.

The event will comprise of a conference and an exposition. The conference will cover a range of topics from mLearning management strategies and best practices to content and design considerations for tablet and smartphone technologies, while the expo, scheduled on 21^st and 22^nd June, will have as many as 30 leading industry suppliers eager to share their mLearning tools, technologies, products, and services.

Upside Learning will be showcasing its entire range of innovative mobile learning solutions that include micro courses, quizzes, games, mbooks, videos, Augmented Reality apps and mobile apps for smartphones, non-smartphones and other mobile devices, spanning various platforms like Symbian, Android, Blackberry OS, iOS etc.

Visitors can also experience Upside Learning’s newly launched revolutionary platform for mobile learning, Upside2Go. It is a solution that will not only help training departments to reach out to the mobile workforce easily, but would also enable a mobile-based approach to real-time sharing and collaborating, within and outside a team. Amit Gautam, Director of Technology Solutions at Upside Learning, will be present at the booth to explain the nuances of the system.

Also on display will be the company’s award-winning custom eLearning solutions and its two-time Brandon Hall award-winning, best value Learning Management System – UpsideLMS. Besides, there will be exciting offers for people visiting the booth.

To help people understand the wide array of mLearning tools, technologies, products, and services available for implementing mLearning in their organisation, Upside Learning will be holding a Master Class session at the expo. This session, titled ‘Mobile Learning and Performance Support with Upside2Go’, will be held at 12.45PM on June 21^st.

“With the unprecedented growth of mobile technologies coupled with the growing penetration of mobile devices, Mobile Learning is emerging as the ‘future’ of learning. For us at Upside Learning, mLearning is not just another delivery mode; it’s a whole different way of looking at learning itself.”, said Amit Garg, Director of Content Solutions at Upside Learning. Further, talking about mLearnCon, Amit Gautam, Director of Technology Solutions at Upside Learning, added, “We are confident that mLearnCon would be a perfect platform for us to showcase our mobile learning solutions. Besides, given the 100+ focused learning activities spread across the event days, it would be 3 days of new learning, new connections and new ideas.”

Upside learning’s representatives will be present at booth (number 316) 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.

Click here to register for the expo.

Attendees at mLearnCon 2011 can look forward to winning a Kindle Reader at Upside Learning’s booth (#316). This is a part of the company’s special expo offer for the event, which will be held between 21^st and 23^rd of June in San Jose, CA.

To be eligible for the offer, visitors would need to register at Upside Learning’s booth. One winner will be chosen via random draw, and announcement of the winner thereof will be done post the event. The company’s representative will contact the winner personally via email.

Besides participating in the offer, attendees can experience Upside Learning’s entire range of innovative Mobile Learning solutions including its newly launched revolutionary platform for Mobile Learning – Upside2Go. Visitors can also take a look at the company’s award-winning Custom eLearning solutions and its best value Learning Management System – UpsideLMS.

The company’s representatives will also be delivering a Master Class session titled ‘Mobile Learning and Performance Support with Upside2Go’ on June 21^st at 12.45PM.

Upside learning’s representatives will be present throughout the event and can be found at booth no. 316. To pre-arrange a meeting with a member of the Upside Learning team during the conference, drop a mail at sales@upsidelearning.com

After a successful participation at mLearnCon 2011, Upside Learning will be revisiting the event’s 2012 edition. Slated to be held in San Jose, USA, from 19^th to 21^st June 2012, the event promises to answer some of the most pressing questions that organisation might have related to mLearning. Upside Learning too will be actively sharing its knowledge and experience in this evolving domain at its booth (#216).

In the past one year, Upside Learning has developed a number of mobile learning solutions using the latest technologies, including HTML5-based solutions, some of which will be available for viewing at the booth. Besides this, visitors can also 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.

Also on display will be Upside2Go, Upside Learning’s revolutionary platform for Mobile Learning. Now available on all the major mobile platforms, namely iOS, BlackBerry and Android, Upside2Go brings formal, informal, social and collaborative learning, and performance support to one central platform – mobile. The Upside Learning staff will be able to demonstrate various ways in which existing clients are using Upside2Go, along with different use case scenarios for this mobile learning platform.

Upside learning’s representatives will be present at booth number 216 throughout the event. To pre-arrange a meeting with a member of the Upside Learning team, send an email specifying the preferred time and date to sales@upsidelearning.com.

Too often, we don’t take the time to stop and acknowledge good performance. Or good performance becomes the norm – so it’s no longer anything special. But at Upside Learning, we didn’t want to slip into this rut. So we launched the Protsahan System to recognise and reward performance on monthly, quarterly, yearly – and yes, even daily – basis.

Protsahan is Hindi for ‘encouragement’ or ‘motivation’. Our Protsahan system provides a mechanism to capture and publicly recognise and appreciate both flashes of excellence as well as consistent good performance.

Top performers additionally receive rewards for their performance, based on the number of points collected. These rewards, presented quarterly and annually, can be in the form of electronic gadgets, shopping vouchers, dinner vouchers, and even holiday packages.

Remember, no organisation can amount to anything without its employees. We recognise that!