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

The flat world and the growing Internet population have put a great importance on websites as one of the primary sources of information. With more than a million websites added every year, creating a website that stands apart from the crowd and provides all necessary information to the reader is nothing less than an art. And Upside Learning has demonstrated this art by figuring 26^th on the ‘100 Highest Ranking Websites In eLearning And Learning Technology’ List.

Conducted by Now, a leading Marcomm management company, this ranking is calculated by crunching together individual rankings from Google PageRank, Moz Rank, Alexa, Hubspot’s Web grader and Compete. While this list focuses on commercial operators whose primary market is B2B learning, larger companies with specific divisions or product sets targeting the learning industry are included but only specific portions of their website have been used in the ranking.

Congratulating its in-house Marketing team on this achievement, Amit Garg, Director of Custom eLearning Solutions at Upside Learning commented, “We have always believed in valuing the time of visitors to our website and as such our website has reflected information that is accurate and to the point. Our in-house marketing team especially the SEO/ SMO experts deserve a great applause for the efforts taken to optimise our website from all perspectives. Getting listed on the top 100 websites for eLearning and learning technology is indeed a pat on the back for all of us.”

With the worldwide market for Mobile Learning products and services predicted to grow from USD 3.2 billion (2010) to about USD 9.1 billion by 2015 (as per Ambient Insight’s September 2011 report titled ‘The Worldwide Market for Mobile Learning Products and Services: 2010-2015 Forecast and Analysis’) it’s only natural for companies dealing in Mobile Learning products and services to showcase their wares with an increased gusto. Hinged on this fact, Upside Learning too will be focusing on its Mobile Learning solutions at ASTD TK 2012 and Learning Technologies 2012.

Visitors at Upside Learning’s booth 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. The main attraction, however, will be Upside2Go, Upside Learning’s revolutionary platform for Mobile Learning. Designed for the workforce that is continuously on the move, Upside2Go brings formal, informal, social and collaborative learning, and performance support to one central platform – mobile. Now available on all the major mobile platforms, namely iOS, BlackBerry and Android, Upside2Go has a host of features that clients look for in a mobile learning platform. At the expo, the Upside Learning staff will be able to demonstrate various ways in which existing clients are using Upside2Go.

Also on display would be Upside Learning’s award-winning Custom eLearning Solutions and soon to be released version of its two-time Brandon Hall award-winning, best value Learning Management System – UpsideLMS. Users can expect a completely redesigned and more user-friendly interface for this stunning LMS.

ASTD TK 2012 will be held at Las Vegas, NV from 25^th to 27^th January and Learning Technologies will be held at Olympia 2, London on 25th and 26th January.

Attendees at the expos will not only get a chance to watch a live demonstration of Upside Learning’s solutions and services, but will also get to experience them first hand. The company’s representatives will be present at stand (#313 at ASTD TK and #75 at Learning Technologies) 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

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.

Announcing its special expo offer for ASTD International Conference and Expo 2011 (ASTD ICE 2011), Upside Learning revealed today the prize to be won at the event. The company would be giving away a Kindle Reader (Wi-Fi version) absolutely free to a lucky visitor at the expo to be held from 23^rd May to 25^th May in Orlando, Florida.

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 award-winning solutions and services (UpsideLMS, Mobile Learning Solutions, Upside2Go and Custom eLearning), interact with the team, and discuss their learning problems and requirements.

Overall, in this 3 day expo, filled with the latest products and services from top suppliers, visitors can figure out how technology will give an edge to learning at their companies, with their clients, and to their own future as learning professionals.

Upside learning’s representatives will be present throughout the event and can be found at booth no. 649. To pre-arrange a meeting with a member of the Upside Learning team during the conference, drop a mail at sales@upsidelearning.com.

Upside Learning has been short listed as a finalist for Red Herring’s Global 100 2009 Award, which recognises the year’s most promising private technology ventures from around the world based on their technological innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition, and financial health.

The 200 finalists for the 2009 edition of the Red Herring Global 100 Award have been selected from a pool of 1200 regional recipients or finalists of the Red Herring 100 Awards in 2007, 2008, or 2009, ranging from Asia, Europe, and North America. The nominees were evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries.

This global recognition after having recently won the Red Herring 100 Asia 2008 Award is testimony to the specialist position that Upside Learning has been able to build in the areas of eLearning development and Learning Technology solutions.

Amit Garg, Director of Content Solutions at Upside Learning, says, “We are very happy to be included in the final list of 200 global companies. I would like to congratulate each and every member of Upside Learning who made this possible for us in an otherwise difficult year.”

Technology Solutions Director Amit Gautam adds, “It’s a great recognition to be one of the 200 global finalists. Everyone at Upside shares the excitement and the feeling of achievement as the year that just passed was definitely a challenging one.

This is the third recognition for Upside Learning in 2009, following its selection as a winner in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2009 Program and the receipt of two Apex 2009 Awards of Excellence.

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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Upside Learning recently sponsored the inaugural CLO Summit India, which addresses the organizational learning & development scenario in India. The summit witnessed the presence of eminent speakers and leaders from the Human Resources and Learning & Development.

The first panel which discussed whether there is a need of a separate CLO in an organization today was excellent. The CLO, who is a domain expert in learning and organizational development, is the key to enable the achievement of an organization’s vision and business goals through the proper development of its workforce.

Some of the other subjects discussed at the event were ‘Learning in Multicultural environments’ and ‘The role of R&D, Innovation and Learning in today’s dynamic organization’. These sessions brought out different perspectives and that was great for the audience. The audience itself was participative and contributed to a better understanding for everyone with its questions and comments.

It was a day filled with inspiring keynotes, crisp panel discussions and stimulating presentations, the event witnessed the presence of eminent speakers such as Mr. Bhaskar Chatterjee (Secretary, Department of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Government of India), Mr. Arun Balakrishnan (HPCL), Mr. Thomas Varghese (Aditya Birla Retail), Mr. Yogi Sriram (L & T), Ms. Susan Bloch (Aditya Birla Group), Mr. Kalyan Banerjee (Mindtree), Ms. Suchitra Rajendra (PepsiCo), Mr. Nilesh Kulkarni (Novartis Consumer Health), Captain Mohanlal J P (SBI Life Insurance) along with notable personalities from the Indian PSU sector including BPCL, ONGC and IOC.