Wanting better. There's nothing wrong with it - in fact, it's a simple act of discernment. And we like working to delight discerning people.

This is why we put together the Upside Learning Showcase. It is a carefully curated collection of learning innovation, with a heavy accent on practicality. Launched in 2016, this service has been wildly popular with the clients who've already tried it. Tell us your needs, your challenges, your training context and infrastructure, and we'll show you which innovations could work for you, could make your trainings simply... better.

Is it just fashionable or are there any worthwhile reasons to consider adopting unlearning? Here are 5 reasons to raise it beyond buzzword-status.

Where do you get started to make sure that your mobile content meets accessibility needs? Or if you usually design for the PC, how is the deal different for tablets and mobile phones?

Have you heard of Lumesse’s CourseBuilder as a responsive rapid authoring tool option? Have you already tried to find out about it? Maybe we can make your life easier: an all-you-need-to-consider, handy overview of the tool is up on our blog.

Everyone's excited about integrating Virtual Reality into learning spaces. Here's a roundup of some interesting tools and technologies by Upside’s dedicated R&D team, with their possible applications and some great ideas for learning.

Not yet ready to jump into technologies and tools but ready to dip your toes in the (virtual!) water? Here's a post to gently ease you into VR, how it's different from AR and what relevance it can have to corporate training.

The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) collected training information from over 2500 firms and found that companies that offer comprehensive training:

	Have 218 percent higher income per employee than those with less comprehensive training,
	Enjoy a 24 percent higher profit margin than those who spend less on training, and
	Generate a 6 percent higher shareholder return if the training expenditure per employee increases by $680.

These statistics can be found along with some interesting corporate examples here.

A sensible reminder to us from the Gallup group:

   Helping employees apply their talents in their roles is just a first step on the road to your company's continuous improvement. In the long run, selecting and training the right employees will be much more productive than training the wrong ones.  

The measured words of caution come at the end of an interesting article on how to also boost productivity by leveraging employee strengths. Drop by here for a quick and interesting read.

It kind of reminds us of Joe Harless’ stance,

   An ounce of analysis is worth a pound of objectives.  

Sometimes you can make a great list of objectives, but there are some problems that training cannot solve. The thing to do is a proper analysis of the situation to know the truth.

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