‘Responsive eLearning Design & Development’ – Upside Learning’s eBook released!

Upside Learning, a leading provider of learning technology solutions, has released an eBook titled ‘Responsive eLearning Design & Development‘.The multi-device world has enabled learners to access learning via a number of different devices – desktops/laptops, tablets and smartphones. Learners expect information to be available at the point-of-need or time-of-interest, especially the mobile workforce that requires flexibility and convenience in accessing learning materials. To meet this growing demand for multi-device usage and expectation, responsive design was born to facilitate development of a single design that is compatible across all possible user devices.But with every new technology comes its unique challenges that organisations must take into account. The challenges come in the form of designing and delivering materials across a multitude of devices, operating systems, browsers, screen sizes and resolutions. As a result, the design, development and testing process can prove to be quite cumbersome and complex.

In light of this, the eBook gives eLearning professionals an in-depth look into the world of responsive eLearning, its design & development functions and its challenges & solutions. It explores the role of Responsive eLearning in response to the escalating demand for multi-device learning and performance support, its key features, different approaches and benefits. It also gives insights on when to use a responsive strategy and how to deploy it successfully in the organisation.

Key topics include:

Understanding Responsive eLearning Design
Determining Responsive eLearning Design Strategy
When to use Responsive eLearning Design
Challenges and Solutions

The eBook can be downloaded here.

Upside Learning at ATDTK 2018, San Jose ( January 24 & 25 )

Upside Learning is a leading provider of learning solutions and services to organisations worldwide. Their focus has consistently been to help companies improve performance through engaging learning solutions.

Upside Learning are experts in custom eLearning, mobile learning and performance consultancy. They provide end-to-end design and development services, from consultancy and solutioning to multi-device testing and post-roll out support. Over a span of 13 years, they have won over 42 awards and recognitions for their engaging learning solutions.

Upside will be present at the ATD TechKnowledge conference in San Jose on the 24th and 25th of January, 2018. Visit them at booth 118 for a chance to get to know them and see how they can be of service to your company’s training efforts.

Amit Garg Analyses Brandon Hall’s Latest Report on eLearning Outsourcing in an Upcoming Webinar

As per the recently released Brandon Hall report on eLearning Outsourcing, today, for most organisations outsourcing their content development, cost is no longer the prime factor for driving their eLearning outsourcing requirements. On the contrary, other factors including quality, value and innovation have gained importance.

Based on this report, Amit Garg, a well known name in eLearning industry and Director and Co-founder of Upside Learning, will be presenting a webinar on 27^th & 28^th of July. Titled ‘The Buyer-Provide Partnership – The Key to High-Quality Custom Content‘, the webinar will explore the eLearning outsourcing landscape in a new light. In the 1-hour session, Amit will analyse the report thoroughly, turn the data into decision-making tools, enlist the benefits and elucidate them through case studies based on content development work Upside Learning done with hundreds of clients over last decade.

It’s Five on the trot! Upside Learning makes it to the Training Industry’s Training Outsourcing Watch List for the Fifth Year running

Upside Learning Solutions, a leading provider of custom learning solutions has been listed in the Training Industry, Inc’s – Training Outsourcing Companies Watch List yet again. This is the fifth time in a row that Upside has been recognised as a leading training outsourcing company.

Trainingindustry.com compiles a list of the top learning providers worldwide every year after thorough analysis of the capabilities, expertise and experience of each company considered.

Upside Learning has been recognised particularly on these counts:

Innovative service offerings
Ability to provide services on a global basis
Profile of clients

This accolade coincides with the Launch of Upside Learning’s new campaign ‘Go Beyond’ which will highlight challenges faced by the LnD and urge them to Go Beyond learning solutions that just ticks-the-boxes. The campaign also invites the LnD community to share their experiences and challenges with the hashtag #LnDGoBeyond for a wider discussion. More details on Go Beyon can be found here: https://upsidelearning.com/what-is-go-beyond/

Brandon Hall Group releases new report on eLearning Outsourcing

Brandon Hall Group, a preeminent research and analyst firm has released its latest report on eLearning outsourcing today. The report titled- The Buyer-Provider Partnership: The Key to High-Quality Custom Content, is supported by Upside Learning, a leading player in the eLearning outsourcing domain. The report aims to help organisations to build successful client-vendor relationships in eLearning outsourcing.

Authored by David Wentworth, Principal Learning Analyst at Brandon Hall Group, the report is based on Brandon Hall Group’s Content Outsourcing Study, which surveyed 206 companies of all sizes, representing approximately 30 different industries from organisations around the globe. It explores the current content outsourcing landscape and identifies the primary factors that drive eLearning outsourcing, the nature of outsourcing and the benefits gained.

The report available for free download, primarily highlights that the buyer- provider relationship has matured from being just a purchase and walk away thing. It points out that, 77% of companies leverage at least some outsourcing for content development and that developing content was seen as a priority or critical to the business by 68% of companies.

The key highlights:

What drives content development outsourcing?
Factors important in provider-buyer partnership
Satisfaction with providers and reasons for replacing them

The report is available for download here.

About Brandon Hall Group

Brandon Hall Group is a HCM research and advisory services firm that provides insights around key performanceareas, including Learning and Development, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Talent Acquisition, and HR/Workforce Management.

With more than 10,000 clients globally and 20 years of delivering world-class research and advisory services, Brandon Hall Group is focused on developing research that drives performance in emerging and large organisations, and provides strategic insights for executives and practitioners responsible for growth and businessresults.

To learn more visit – www.brandonhall.com

#LnDGoBeyond – Upside Learning urges LnD community to Go Beyond with their New Campaign

The campaign aims to bring forward the challenges that the LnD community face and how the fraternity needs to Go Beyond learning courses that just “ticks-the-box”

With businesses facing the ever-increasing threat of modern disruptions, workplace learning takes even more importance to help organisations face new challenges. For the LnD community, this presents a good opportunity to rethink their learning solutions and do more than what just ‘ticks the box’.

To address this need and to mark the completion of its 15 years, Upside Learning announced a new campaign “Go Beyond”. The campaign aims to discuss the challenges faced by the LnD community and deliberate on how – ‘the way’ learning solutions are designed – can evolve for the future. For the campaign, a hashtag #LnDGoBeyond is being used so that the LnD community can use it while sharing their thoughts making it easier for everyone to search and follow the discussions.

To know more about what Go Beyond means, please visit this link: https://upsidelearning.com/what-is-go-beyond/

Upside Learning Features in the Training Industry’s Training Outsourcing Watch List for the Fourth Consecutive Year

Upside Learning Solutions, a leading provider of custom learning solutions has been listed in the Training Industry, Inc’s – Training Outsourcing Companies Watch List yet again. This is the fourth time that Upside has been recognised as a leading training outsourcing company.

Trainingindustry.com compiles a list of the top learning providers worldwide every year after thorough analysis of the capabilities, expertise and experience of each company considered.

Upside Learning has been recognised particularly on these counts:

Innovative service offerings
Ability to provide services on a global basis
Profile of clients

For over 14 years, Upside Learning has consistently delivered best-in-class custom learning solutions, offering a wide range of learning solutions that include Custom eLearning, Multi-device/ Responsive eLearning, Performance Support Aids, Learning Consultancy, Instructor-led Training, Videos, eBooks, Games and more.

Upside Learning has implemented more than 5000 projects and won more than 42 industry awards and recognitions.

Upside Learning Featured in Training Industry’s Training Outsourcing Watch List for the Second Consecutive Year

With the aim of continually monitoring the training marketplace, each year TrainingIndustry.com keeps a close eye on providers of training services and technologies announces its Training Outsourcing Companies Watch List unfailingly. Last week it released the list of leading training outsourcing companies for 2016, and Upside Learning, a leading provider of learning technologies, has been recognised as a leading training outsourcing company for the second consecutive year.

Though Training Industry usually recognises eight companies each year, the 2016 Training Outsourcing Companies Watch List includes twelve companies from across the globe that provides outsourced learning services. The companies in the list are selected after extensive research, including thorough analysis of their capabilities, experience, expertise, and filtered based on the following criteria:

Innovative service offerings
Ability to provide services on a global basis
Unique and proven approach to Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) solutions
Quality of client served

Upside Learning has been in the learning outsourcing business for over 12 years now, and has constantly delivered additional value to its clients in the form of Custom eLearning Solutions and delivered best value, through its multi award-winning, SaaS Learning Management System, UpsideLMS.

Upside Learning is well-known for its end to end custom eLearning projects that start from determining the clients’ learning needs to development of custom eLearning, multi-device/responsive eLearning, rapid eLearning, assistance in different types of makeovers to the existing eLearning solutions to hosting on LMSs, that makes it a unique outsourcing partner.

The Training Industry’s 2016 Training Outsourcing Watch List is available for viewing here –

https://trainingindustry.com/press-release/learning-technologies/trainingindustry-com-announces-2016-learning-portal-companies-watch-list/

Upside Learning in the running for two 2014 E-Learning Awards

The exceptionally diverse shortlist showcasing the amazing range that eLearning now covers, whittled down from 250+ entries by 2014 E-Learning Awards’ independent judging panel, chaired by Tony Frascina, features Upside Learning in 2 categories – ‘E-learning development company of the year’ and ‘Best e-learning project – international private sector’.As a shortlisted entrant in the technical category and for E-learning development company of the year, Upside Learning will now be put through another round of face-to-face or online presentation from the judging panel before the winners are finally chosen and announced at the E-Learning Awards gala evening at the London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square on Thursday 6 November 2014.Upside Learning’s entry for ‘Best e-learning project – international private sector‘ is in partnership with Vocollect by Honeywell for its course ‘Competitive Technologies‘. Vocollect wanted an eLearning course that would help its sales team influence their customers, who already have other technology solutions and are looking for a change or are considering other solutions for their warehouse, to opt for Vocollect Voice. Upside created a course consisting of a series of engaging stories that are animated using minimalistic graphic style and crisp dialogues. Simplified flow diagrams, conceptual animations and info-graphics were used to make the information easy to understand and retain. Videos of Vocollect Voice technology and clients’ testimonials were embedded to reinforce the content covered in the course.

Upside Learning wins two Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards

The Brandon Hall Excellence awards are a testament to Upside Learning’s expertise in developing custom content and learning programs that help organisations improve their performance and achieve measurable results.

This year’s winning entries under the Learning and Development category were submitted jointly by Upside Learning and its clients. The details of the awards are as below:

Best Results of a Learning Program:

Silver: Upside Learning developed an eLearning solution for teaching a module of a Pharmacology BSc within an MBBS program. The e-modules allowed students to gain the essential background knowledge prior to teaching. This also allowed the teachers to focus more on the difficult concepts within the field. Analysis of exam performance showed a significant increase in the exam grades of the students.

Best Advance in Custom Content:

Bronze: Upside Learning developed an eLearning module aimed at helping report writers and other staff members write more effective reports and non-technical communications through the application of the Main Message Up Front (MMUF) concept.

The Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards program recognises achievements in the performance improvement domain. This prestigious award is presented annually by the Brandon Hall Group, a leading research firm that empowers excellence in organisations. The program invites entries from solution providers with innovative programs, cutting edge technologies and services that have helped organisations improve their performance and achieve measurable results.