John Hegel lll and John Seely Brown have written an article titled ‘Six Fundamental Shifts in the Way We Work’ on HBR blog. The article summarizes the ideas from their new book – The Power of Pull.
We’re very excited to announce the availability of Upside Blog iPhone App. This App is designed to make it easy and more convenient for iPhone users to read and interact with posts on this blog.
Amit Gautam | June 29th, 2010
I am pleased to share that our flagship and award-winning Learning Management System, UpsideLMS, has been named as one of the “Five Emerging Learning Management Systems (LMSs) to Watch” by Brandon Hall, chairman of Brandon Hall Research in Chief Learning Officer magazine’s July 2010 edition. UpsideLMS is a fully-featured social learning management system offering integrated support for formal and informal learning.
This quarter, our Social Welfare Group embarked upon its first activity: a blood donation camp, conducted in association with Ruby Hall Clinic’s Blood Bank.
Saturday morning saw a flurry of preparations, and come 9:00 A.M., all was ready for the first donor.
Amit Gautam | May 3rd, 2010
It was an exciting moment when Tom Werner of Brandon Hall started announcing the names of the winners for various categories in the online ceremony for the 2009 Excellence in Learning Technology Awards.
We were informed that the UpsideLMS was a finalist in three categories and we were waiting to find out what award we were going to win.
Today, Upside Learning is thrilled to announce that we are augmenting reality in Pune, with a layer that’ll let you find significant landmarks in and around the city. If you have an iPhone or Android Phone and have the augmented reality browser Layar installed you can access this layer now.
We’ve been experimenting with Augmented Reality and Virtuality, we posted about that earlier here. We found Layar really interesting and wanted to develop a layer just to see how it works and to understand what the user experience is like.
Recently during one of our discussions about the way individuals work and learn, we debated whether humans are inherently capable of multi-tasking, or is it a singular task at any point in time, but are capable of rapid switching of attention from task to task. As a general search on the web will reveal, there is quite a debate about multitasking and task switching.
This is a fantastic talk by 12 year old Adora Svitak about what adults should learn from children.
Key points for me:
- Children think of possibilities and dream about perfection.
- Learning between teachers and students should be reciprocal but the reality is not that because of trust or rather the lack of it.
- Children love challenges. Adults must learn to trust them and have high expectations from them.
This month’s Big Question on Learning Circuits Blog seeks to understand how we are keeping up with the increasingly complex tools and technologies landscape.
I reflect on this question from an organization perspective as opposed to an individual’s perspective. Here’s what we are doing in our organization:
Anniversaries are a good time to reflect on what’s been achieved and plan for the year ahead. We celebrated our 6th Anniversary on 7th April, 2010, and I realized that Upside Learning had come a long way since its inception in early 2004. We started this company with a passion for delivering innovative and effective learning solutions and I think we have achieved that to some extent.
It’s been a year since we started blogging (March 03, 2009) and we are raring to go another notch high. With 142 posts, over 75,500 page views, and 600+ subscriber base, it’s been an enjoyable journey so far. A big thanks to all our loyal readers for taking the time to read and for leaving your valuable comments. We sincerely appreciate your continued patronage. We look forward to a great 2010!
We first posted about Augmented Reality way back in April 2009. Since then, we’ve been extremely excited by its potential in workplace learning and recently our innovation team has been trying out various SDKs/classes. AR applications around the world are being developed using FLARToolKit, LAYAR, UNIFEYE, D-fusion platform etc. So far, we’ve implemented FLARToolKit and LAYAR in AR application development at Upside.
It gives us immense pleasure to share our first real sample in AR Street Racing.
