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Upside Learning, global provider of Elearning solutions today announced that it ranked Number 462 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2009, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in Asia Pacific. These programs, conducted by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Asia Pacific, recognize the fastest growing technology companies in the Asia Pacific region on the basis of their percentage revenue growth over the past three years.

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.

Upside Learning has tied up with Skill-Pill to resell the mobile learning catalog content in India and a few other regions. Skill-Pill designs and produces short, high-impact pills of knowledge and motivational content. The pills are developed to reinforce recent skills training and business communication. Upside Learning believes mobile technology has the potential to really make learning anytime, anywhere and for anyone.

Australian Aerospace, the only helicopter producer in Australia and New Zealand and a subsidiary of the Eurocopter, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of EADS, the largest Aerospace and Defence company in Europe, upgraded to UpsideLMS Version 4.0 from UpsideLMS Version 3.0. Australian Aerospace has been using UpsideLMS for over a year before the upgrade.

Upside Learning is expanding its network of strategic and business partners through the newly announced program which aims to attract both independent organizations in the business of offering learning / training / eLearning solutions and individual professionals who do not sell / offer / work on learning solutions but are aware of potential customers who need such solutions and can refer Upside Learning to those customers.

Upside Learning today announced an exciting opportunity for organizations already using an LMS (learning management system) and looking to switch to a new LMS. UpsideLMS Version 4.0, in both editions – Professional and Enterprise, is available for the exchange program and offers significant cost savings.

Upside Learning today announced the release of latest version of their flagship product UpsideLMS. “Release of Version 4.0 is an exciting milestone for Upside Learning. It is a direct result of the valuable feedback from our customer base and the inputs from our internal teams including the innovation, marketing and sales teams.

Bilyak Consulting offers a range of e–learning solutions to African corporations and other businesses enabling them to adapt to e–learning faster and better. Bilyak was looking for a learning management solution that would enable them to offer a robust platform which would serve a number of customers through an On–Demand model.

The recent financial crisis has hit companies across the globe very hard and it is nothing different for both training companies and learning solutions service providers like Upside Learning. However during the last few months we have found a significant increase in the number of training companies now looking at expanding their current classroom training business model to deliver the training online as well.

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.

UTI Mutual Fund is one of India’s leading Fund Managers and a pioneer of the Mutual Fund industry. The oldest Mutual Fund in India, it is today among the Top 5 Mutual Funds in the country as per the assets managed by it.

On April 7, 2009, Upside Learning turned five. It all began back in 2004, with two entrepreneurs who wanted to set up their own business for providing effective eLearning Solutions. Over a span of five years, we evolved from a 6-person team operating out of a shared office above a bank to a 150-employee organization providing Learning Solutions to clients worldwide.

Upside Learning has been included in the fourth annual list of “Emerging Leaders in Training Outsourcing” announced by Training Industry, Inc. on April 7, 2009.

Conventional eLearning is based on behavioral and cognitive models of learning which were developed during the 1960s and 70s. For today’s generation, however, with its growing percentage of gamers, these methodologies fail to grip. Their expectations have been molded by the Internet, the World Wide Web, and digital games, and their associated technologies. They want sophisticated media, involvement, and interaction.

Upside Learning has tied up with MindLeaders to resell their collection of over 2,200 catalog courses in India. The courses include a wide range of subjects ranging from IT to Management to Interpersonal skills. Such off-the-shelf courses can address skill gaps requiring immediate attention or general training requirements, or complement custom-developed content to create the right learning mix. Additional options include 24x7 access to MindLeaders’ Instant Mentoring facility and access to a Reference Library of over 1,000 eBooks.