Almost 2 years after Upside Learning’s website donned a new look to reflect its new corporate identity, the company announced today the launch of its revamped website.

The new website is designed with a fresh, clean, user–friendly format which offers quick and easy access to the key sections that today’s consumers desire. New banners and crisp copy have been used to aid understanding and encourage user interaction. The main aim of the website is to help visitors get a clear understanding of what Upside Learning brings to the table, with convenient ways for prospective clients to learn about the company’s solutions and services.

Among its new features are – a floating share tab with popular social media links on all the pages, shorter forms (for requesting demos and setting up a call) on all solutions and services pages, and floating tabs on its solutions (UpsideLMS and Upside2Go) pages. A new section dedicated to the industries served has also been added.

On the technical front, the website has been developed using HTML 5 structuring, CSS, jQuery and XML.

To access the all new Upside Learning website, go to – www.upsidelearning.com

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

Upside Learning, a global leader in workplace learning technology solutions, will be participating in LearnX Asia Pacific 2012. A first time participant of this annual event on learning innovations, the company will also be sponsoring this two–day event, and has become the silver sponsor.

To be held in Melbourne, Australia on 29^th and 30^th August 2012, LearnX brings together visionary learning leaders across the globe and conducts interesting events, sessions and awards ceremonies pertaining to learning industry.

At its booth (#19), Upside Learning will be showcasing its wide range of learning technology solutions which includes its best value Learning Management System – UpsideLMS, its revolutionary mobile learning platform – Upside2Go, and its latest offerings in Custom Learning Solutions. Attendees at the expo can experience all these solutions and services first hand, interact with the team and discuss their learning problems and requirements.

Further, Amit Garg, Director of Custom Learning Solutions at Upside Learning, will be delivering a learning session, “Key Decisions to Make in Mobile Learning Implementation”, at the expo. Scheduled at 11 AM AEST (Room 103) on 30^th August, this session will provide insights to implementing mLearning in the workplace – a must attend for professionals planning to deploy mobile learning in their organisation.

As a special LearnX offer, Upside Learning will be offering a free 3 month subscription of UpsideLMS and an additional 10% discount on the final price quote of this multi award–winning Learning Management System at the two–day expo. Details of the offer will be revealed at the company’s booth.

The company’s representatives will be present at booth #19 throughout the event. To pre–arrange a meeting with a member of the Upside Learning team, interested individuals can send an email specifying the preferred time and date to sales@upsidelearning.com.

Upside Learning announced today that it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Naizak Global Engineering Systems, KSA. This new partnership, which is in line with both the organisation’ interest, will enable Upside Learning to bring innovative learning solutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through NAIZAK’s strong foot prints.

As a part of this partnership, Naizak and Upside Learning will work together to assist organisation in increasing their learning and training effectiveness, and improving human performance and potential through customised learning solutions, which are closely aligned to the client’s business objectives. The solutions and services covered under the purview of this agreement include consulting, on-premise services, learning platforms, assessment engines, blended learning solutions, rapid learning, mobile learning solutions, and custom eLearning programs.

“Our partnership with Naizak is a significant step towards reaching out to organisation in the KSA. Naizak has been playing a lead role in the growth of the national economy, and our association with Naizak could not have come at a better time. We believe that this partnership hinges on both, NAIZAK’s local acquaintance, goodwill and vast experience, and our award-winning solutions and expertise in the learning domain.”, explains Amit Gautam, Director of Technology Solutions at Upside Learning.

About Naizak Global Engineering Systems

Naizak Global Engineering Systems is an engineering & IT conglomerate providing specialised services to the Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Electrical, Power and IT companies. Established in 1998, it is a subsidiary of Al Abdulkarim Holding Group and has a wide coverage in the Middle East, Asia & Europe with help of its partner companies. Naizak maintains a network of offices in Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates through the Abdulkarim Trading Establishment.

Naizak has built strong foot prints in Kingdom’s corporate world and enjoys privilege relationships by providing right mix of solutions to their clients. NAIZAK utilises these partnerships to keep the processes and knowledge at the highest level across all paradigms.

Its major areas of focus are Industrial & Petroleum Eng. Services, Enterprise Solutions, Telecommunication and Training & Education.

To learn more, visit http://www.naizak.com/

Close on the heels of the announcement of its first independent webinar series, Upside Learning hosted a successful webinar on mLearning, titled ‘No Escaping Mobile Learning’, on 8^th August. Attracting registrations to the tune of 400, the webinar was well attended by L&D professionals as other mLearning enthusiasts from across the globe.

The webinar was presented by Amit Garg, Founder & Director of Upside Learning, along with Abhijit Kadle, Sr. Manager – Instructional Design at Upside Learning. The 45 minutes session, followed by Q&A, was packed with many insights and information related to mobile learning.

Few key points highlighted in the webinar were:

• Current scale of adoption of mobile devices
• The key drivers accelerating mobile learning adoption in workplaces
• Getting started with mLearning quickly

The timing of the webinar could not have been better. With the massive proliferation of smartphones and tablets, and ever increasing bandwidths and speed of mobile networks – the entire planet has gone mobile quite literally. Organisations have begun to understand the importance of leveraging mobile devices for learning in workplaces as a great opportunity to enhance learning and performance of its employees.

Upside learning strongly believes in sharing knowledge and information with the global community at large. To this effect the company will continue to arrange more such webinars addressing key issues time and again.

Upside Learning, which began as a boot–strapped startup 8 years back, has come a long way since. It is one of the leaders in the learning solutions space offering award winning products and services. Today its offerings reach over 200 clients worldwide include the USA, the UK, Canada, Latin America, Ireland, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Australia, Singapore, China, South Africa, and India.

The past year has been a very successful one for Upside Learning. Both its products – the Learning Management System – UpsideLMS and the revolutionary mobile learning platform – Upside2Go, won a Brandon Hall award each. In addition it received a Silver in the Learning in Practice Awards by CLO magazine and two 2011 Apex Awards of Excellence for its marketing team.

UpsideLMS has seen a strong growth (approx. 200%) in its client base and Upside2Go has had a successful beginning it its first full year of existence.

The company also released new versions of its products during the year. Upside2Go for BlackBerry was released in October 2011 and then for Android in February 2012. UpsideLMS Arabic version was released in October 2011, which was followed by the release of the latest version of UpsideLMS, version 5.0, in Feb 2012.

Riding on the increasing popularity of UpsideLMS and Upside2Go, and with a view to increase its footprint across the world Upside Learning announced a comprehensive partnership program for these products and have signed up new partners in various parts of the world.

As a part of its continued growth strategy and to be present closer to its client base, Upside Learning appointed a VP Sales for North America in 2011. Further, to support the growth demands and future plans, as a result of new associations in several geographies across the globe, the company augmented its team by approx. 20% over the last 2 quarters.

In last 12 months the company has increased its participation in online and offline trade events. It exhibited in trade shows like the CIPD HRD, ASTD TechKnowledge, ASTD ICE, mLearnCon, Learning Technologies, World of Learning. It also hosted a webinar titled ‘Learner Driven Learning Management System in a Global Environment’, in association with Brandon Hall. The company plans to conduct many such webinars, in association with renowned bodies like ASTD, eLearning Guild, Brandon Hall, in this year.

Attendees of LearnX Asia Pacific 2012 can learn the crucial points to consider before adopting mLearning at their organisation and the steps to take to ensure effective mobile learning implementation, as Upside Learning presents a learning session on mobile learning. Titled ‘Key Decisions to Make in Mobile Learning Implementation’, the session will be presented by Amit Garg, Director of Custom Learning Solutions at Upside Learning, at 11 AM AEST on 30^th August.

Key points that will be discussed in this session include:

• What is mLearning and why is it almost inevitable in today’s age?
• The devices and platforms to consider
• The development and delivery technologies to consider
• Understanding the security issues
• Deciding on the learning content to be deployed

The session is a must attend for organisation looking to include mLearning as a part of their training mix but are unsure how to design, develop and implement a successful mLearning strategy that works for them.

Besides this informative session, attendees can also get a first hand experience of Upside Learning’s multi award–winning Learning Management System, UpsideLMS, revolutionary mobile learning platform, Upside2Go, and Custom Learning Solutions at its booth (#19). There will also be a special offer on UpsideLMS, which will be open only for LearnX attendees.

The company’s representatives will be present at booth #19 throughout the event. To pre-arrange a meeting with a member of the Upside Learning team, interested individuals can send an email specifying the preferred time and date to sales@upsidelearning.com.

CIPD HRD 2012’s learning and networking, to be held at Olympia London on April 25^th and 26^th, will see over 60 free learning sessions being delivered by leading exhibitors. The sessions are divided into 4 distinct areas, namely Topic Tasters, Learning Arena, HRD Interactive and Technology for Learning, each featuring sessions on the latest in L&D. Under ‘Technology for Learning’ area, Upside Learning will be delivering a session on Mobile Learning, titled ‘Implementing Mobile Learning In Workplace – Benefits, Strategy& Success Factors’. This session will be held on the concluding day of the conference and exhibition i.e. 26^th April at 10.15 a.m. BST.

The use of mobiles devices for learning in workplace is growing. Some organisation have already implemented mobile learning while some are still in the planning stages. Many organisation are, however, unaware about the key elements to consider and how to best utilise the available tools to maximise the impact and ROI for their company while implementing a mLearning solution. Upside Learning will build on its experience and expertise in developing and implementing mobile learning for various organisation, and share insights on making the most of mLearning initiatives.

Besides this, visitors can also visit Upside Learning’s booth (#671) to get a taste of some of the company’s wide range of mobile learning offerings including Upside2Go the revolutionary platform for Mobile Learning available on iOS, BlackBerry and Android. The company’s representatives will be present at booth (#671) throughout the event. To pre-arrange a meeting with a member of the Upside Learning team, interested attendees can send an email specifying the preferred time and date to sales@upsidelearning.com

Upside Learning has joined hands with New Horizons to jointly offer eLearning solutions in UAE and Kuwait. While UAE will be the primary market for New Horizons, the company will also offer solutions to organisation in Kuwait through its Kuwait-based sister concern.

The two entities have entered into a channel partnership agreement. As part of this partnership, New Horizons and Upside Learning will jointly provide world–class learning solutions and services to organisation, thereby helping them in increasing their learning and training effectiveness, and support in employee retention. The offering includes UpsideLMS (Upside Learning’s best value Learning Management System), Upside2Go (Upside Learning’s revolutionary Mobile Learning platform), custom eLearning development services and mobile learning solutions.

Upside Learning’s wide range of award–winning solutions and services and New Horizon’s extensive experience in the eLearning domain sets the foundation for a successful partnership.

New Horizons is a part of HumanSoft Holding Company KSCC, a Kuwait stock exchange listed company and a Middle East leading organisation in the public education, higher education and Human and IT development fields. With extensive experience of 28 years, it is a pioneer in offering learning methods that have changed the training landscape.

“We are happy to have New Horizons on our channel partner network. The collective experience and wide range of learning solutions and services between Upside Learning and New Horizon make this a promising association.”, said Amit Garg, Director of Custom Learning Solutions at Upside Learning.

About New Horizons

For the past 28 years New Horizons has been providing innovative learning solutions that have transformed businesses and helped 28 million students reach their career goals. Over the last quarter of a century, it has grown into a global network of 300 centers in 60 countries offering more than 4,000 courses in areas spanning business and professional development, everyday desktop use software and IT skills. It also has a dedicated eLearning division that offers effective learning strategy to more complex needs of organisation.

Upside Learning, today, has released a new eBook on mLearning, ‘Mobile Learning: A Quick Start Guide’. This release is in line with the company’s developments in the mLearning domain. While this is one of the key reasons why Upside Learning chose Mobile Learning as the topic for the eBook, another important reason was that the use of mobile devices and technology for learning and information access is rapidly gaining ground across the world. Mobile technology is now finding widespread acceptance as a training and learning device in the workplace as well. But, training departments are unsure how to implement a successful mLearning strategy.

Using its experience and expertise in developing mobile learning solutions, Upside Learning has written an eBook that will help L&D and training professionals understand when to use, how to design, develop and implement mLearning in a way that works for their organisation. The eBook will also cover the strategy part – listing the basics and then going on to elaborate the method to choose the right technologies for an organisation’s learning need and how to implement them effectively.

Some topics that the readers can look forward to reading about in the eBook are:

• Understanding mLearning
• Key Considerations in Mobile Learning
• The Basics of mLearning Strategy
• Determining mLearning Strategy
• The Technical Approach

The eBook has been co-authored by Amit Garg and Abhijit Kadle. Amit is the Director of Custom Learning Solutions and Abhijit is the Sr. Manager – Instructional Design at Upside Learning.

A complimentary copy of the eBook, ‘Mobile Learning: A Quick Start Guide’, can be obtained from http://bit.ly/mlearning-guide. Also, attendees at Upside Learning’s booth (#671) at CIPD HRD 2012 will also be entitled to a free copy of this eBook.