The Upside Learning blog holds a very special place in my heart. Especially because I am the curator (if you’d like to call it that) of the blog. We started blogging on March 03, 2009, and have never looked back since. Today, 575 posts later, it makes me proud to see the blog bloom into a knowledge hub for people in the eLearning industry and otherwise too. Below are some stats that speak volumes about our blog and us as a company too.

STATS

1. 1,000,000 Views All Time
2. 575 Blog Posts
3. 2500+ No. Of Followers / Subscribers
4. 1500+ Comments
5. 31,624 Best Ever Views In A Month
6. 1,693 Best Ever Views In A Single Day

And since this achievement has made me a bit nostalgic about the days gone by, I have compiled a list of our 50 all time, most-read posts.

1. Tools for Developing Augmented Reality Applications
2. Top 50 Mobile Learning Resources
3. Top 100 Learning Game Resources
4. Top 13 LMS (and Learning Technology) Blogs
5. Creating 3D Graphics – Isometric Views With Orthographic Projection
6. iPad Applications In Bloom’s Taxonomy
7. Five Tips for Creating Graphics for Mobile Devices
8. This Flash Player (Frash) Runs On iPad
9. 5 Rapid Authoring Tools To Publish Courses For Your iPads
10. 22 Books For Beginner Instructional Designers
11. 30 Top Online Resources For Instructional Designers To Keep Up With
12. Top 47 eLearning & Workplace Learning Blogs
13. The Ten Commandments of eLearning
14. Training Plan For iPhone Application Development
15. Elements For Constructing Social Learning Environments
16. Learning Creativity and About Creativity From Lego
17. Instructional Design for Beginners – What Motivates People To Learn?
18. IPhone- User Interface Guidelines- Part I
19. Is HTML5 Ready for eLearning Development?
20. The Real Cost of a Free (Open Source) LMS!
21. Tools For Mobile Learning Development
22. Mobile Learning: A Quick SWOT Analysis
23. Five Mobile Learning Implementation Tips
24. 15 Authoring Tools For mEnabling Your eLearning For iPads
25. What Is Mobile Learning?
26. Future of Learning Technology – 2015
27. Developing A Layar Application
28. Rapid Authoring Tools For Creating mLearning
29. Interesting Mobile Statistics By Tomi Ahonen: mLearnCon
30. Mobile Learning (mLearning) Applications – An Example
31. SCORM Implementation For Mobile Devices
32. 5 Good TED Talks On Games
33. 22 Great Free ActionScript 3.0 Learning Resources
34. LMS: A Quick SWOT Analysis
35. HTML 5 and eLearning Development
36. Apple iPad Disappoints eLearning Industry
37. Instructional Design Basics: Designing A Timeline
38. Will Mobile Apps Change Training Forever?
39. Blending Learning with Social Technology Components
40. Custom eLearning Development Costs – Results From Chapman Alliance Study
41. Mobile Learning in India
42. A List of Interesting Mobile Learning Links
43. Eight Tips for LMS Implementation
44. What Is Game Based Learning?
45. eLearning Development: How long does it Really take?
46. Why Use ActionScript 3.0 in Flash Based eLearning Development?
47. eLearning Australia
48. Using Silverlight/Expression Blend for eLearning Development
49. How Long Does It Take To Develop An Hour Of Elearning?
50. How To Create Successful M-Learning Strategy: mLearnCon – Part I

On a final note, I would love to hear what you find the most interesting on our blog and what you would like to read about in our future posts. Let us know in the comments section below.

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Another technology that has found its feet not just in marketing but more so in just-in-time, self-based learning is Augmented Reality (AR). Know how AR can change your world.

Besides this, our technology-tuned ears have also caught some scoop on iPhone and Flash; finally, the marriage seems to be on the cards. Find all this and more in our Weekly Digest – a collection of top 10 links from the week gone by, each accompanied by a quick brief.
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1. QR Codes Explained by Common Craft
This video explains how QR codes are changing the way we access information in the real world through scanning a new kind of code with a camera phone.

2. 10 Examples Of QR Codes For Real Time Marketing
Find 10 examples of QR codes for real time marketing.

3. Augmented Reality: 5 Ways it Can Change Your World
Know the 5 ways in which businesses are using AR to promote their products and causes today, and insights into what’s in the future.

4. iPhone Finally Gets Flash
Apple may not have approved it, but it appears as though iPhone users will soon gain access to Flash content.  Get the entire lowdown here.

5. How HTML5 May Become The Standard For Apps (Inside Apps)
Qualcomm executive Rob Chandhok tells CNET why he sees apps moving toward HTML5 in a big way over the next 18 to 24 months.

6. The iPad Challengers: A Status Report
Android, WebOS, QNX, Windows – a number of operating systems were supposed to have a decent shot at competing with the iPad. So, how have they fared so far? Not so hot is what this blog post by Harry McCracken says.

7. 10 Infographics For Learning
Find 10 infographics that discuss learning in many different capacities – online, blended, mobile, etc.

8. Social Gaming Now And In The Future
This article shows an infographics on some interesting stats about the social gaming in the USA and curious about one for Europe or the whole world. Further, a recent study by Latitude Research claims that the new gamers are looking forward to see games and applications go beyond the screen and easily combine “online” with their “offline” lives. Know the state of gaming now and in the future.

9. 9 New Skills You Need To be a 21st Century Educator
Learn 9 new skills, some of which are holdovers from the 20th century, which are desirable – if not outright necessary – components of contemporary classrooms.

10. Overcoming Objections to eLearning
Overcoming objections is an important part of making any eLearning initiative successful, and luckily, eLearning’s long history gives us plenty of knowledge of how to make our case. Find some of the tactics used in dealing with these objections.

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1. Finding the Right Learning Mix
Learning organizations are experiencing a kind of renaissance, with new technology prompting new thinking about how to enhance, extend and enable learning. In the wake of business and technology changes, finding the right learning mix is not just about blending various modes of learning but taking into account the newly changed drivers for blended learning as well.

2. The Manager’s Responsibility In Learning
Learning is just facts and figures without managerial support. Like a great baseball coach, a supportive manager can ensure learning events produce the equivalent of a home run. Know how managers can guide their employees toward right actions and support them even when their attempts fail as part of the development process.

3. The Pros and Cons of E-Learning and Education Technology
Looking at the highs and lows of the new eLearning generation and the education technology revolution, what are the pros and cons of online education, the benefits and dangers? Know it all here before you take the plunge.

4. Marc My Words: Back to Basics – When Training Is the Answer
There are times when training is not the answer. But still training remains a linchpin to most performance improvement strategies, and there is no indication that training — classroom or online — is going away anytime soon. Learn the eight fundamental characteristics that will give you guaranteed improvement opportunities in your training program.

5. Lessons In Social Learning: What Happens In The Classroom Stays In The Classroom
There is an exciting case study in the August issue of Chief Learning Officer Magazine about how Coldwell Banker uses social learning to get to the learning. Know about it here.

6. What Games Have Changed
Examples of games and game-related projects that are already making a difference and why we should care.

7. 10 Tools for Digital Storytelling in Class
A guide to 10 great tools for digital storytelling with a class – create comics, animations and eBooks.

8. Tools For Freelance Instructional Designers
Melissa Venable shares a list of open and commercial tools for freelance instructional designers.

9. Smartphones Have Influenced Higher Education
According to a May 2011 survey by the Nielson Company, about 37% of mobile consumers have a smartphone, with a majority of these individuals using either an Android or an Apple model.

10. Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom
Education that includes at least some online work is more effective than classroom-only teaching, according to a major research review done for the Department of Education.

11. The Rise of the Mobile Workforce [INFOGRAPHIC]
The era of the nine to five job is over. In its place is a mobile workforce that can work from anywhere. This infographic explains the trend.

12. How Far Students Will Go To Switch To Digital Textbooks [INFOGRAPHIC]
Students are willing to go to great lengths in order to never have to carry a textbook again. To find out why they are so anti-textbook, see this infographic.

13. 3 Things Children Would Like To See In The Future Of The Net And Technology
Children from all over the world aged 12 and below share their hopes, wishes and expectations about the Internet and technology in general. The results are surprising, to say the least.

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1. Mobile Learning: Are We On the Cusp of Something Big? We’re at just that point now with mobile learning. Whether it’s on an e-reader, a tablet, or a cell phone, there’s great excitement – though not a lot of research yet – around the potential of how these devices can strengthen learning.

2. Digital learning: Digital Devices To Replace Textbooks As students become more and more dependent on digital devices and digital learning becomes more popular, will textbooks become extinct? Find out in this infographic.

3. Mobile Apps: A Look At What Makes An App Popular There is no magic formula to app success; it always needs a good – if not unique – idea to make the hundreds of millions of smartphone owners take notice. And that’s just one part. Listed here are some key points that make a good app great, what differentiates one photo app from another photo app, to become a top seller on a mobile app store.

4. For Small Businesses, Work Is Increasingly Mobile (And It Pays) It’s not exactly breaking news that mobile technologies are changing the way we work and enabling employees to be productive regardless of their location. What’s interesting is the pace at which they appear to be doing so. Know how small businesses are harnessing mobile technologies for carrying out their work.

5. 10 Major Mobile Learning Trends to Watch For While the applications of mLearning are growing all the time, here are some of the major trends to help you learn more about how mobile learning is shaping the 21st century classroom – and may change how we teach, learn and interact in any educational environment.

6. Times Are Changing – Trends In The Content Authoring Tool Market As the rapid content authoring market continues to grow, new features and capabilities are equally growing. For the most part, that is a great thing, but as you are about to read, some are not.

7. 10 Reasons Teachers Love Blended Learning Blending the best of online and on-site learning can work better for students and teachers. Here are ten reasons that blended learning makes teaching a better job.

8. “There I Was”: Lessons Learned Converting Instructor-based Pilot Training to Blended Learning Know how a project of converting one-half of a 200+ hour instructor-based training curriculum (IBT) to eLearning proved to be the perfect learning laboratory from an eLearning developer’s perspective.

9. App Fusion: 30 Twitter Apps for the Learning Pro Twitter is not the answer to every learning professional’s prayer. There are limits as well as benefits that using these applications will have on learning outcomes. This article will help you get the most value out of Twitter, should you decide to include it in your personal learning strategy or that of your organization.

10. How Many Devices Can A Smartphone, Tablet Replace? Has the smartphone become the quintessential all-in-one device? And if you have both a smartphone and a tablet, where does that leave your laptop? Know more.

11. Poll Shows Generational Gap in Workplace Training Programs Millennials, who grew up in the Internet age, learn and communicate differently than baby boomers – and the results of a new national poll show current approaches to workplace training are struggling to meet the needs of this younger generation. Some staggering facts here.
12. iPad To Dominate Tablet Market Until 2015 [STUDY] The iPad will continue to dominate the growing tablet market until Android tablets take over in 2015, according to several forecasts.

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We have also included a couple of guides and tips on some eLearning and mLearning topics that will help you in creating effective learning experiences and designing mobile apps respectively. Besides this, you will find a sprinkling of information and news on HTML5, Android v/s iPhone features, games etc. Find all this and more in our Weekly Digest – a collection of top 11 links from the week gone by, each accompanied by a quick brief.

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1. 6 Reasons Tablets Are Ready for the Classroom By looking at all that the tablets offer in the context of student behavior and some of the recent trends in education, it’s clear that tablets are ready for the classroom. Here’s a look at the top reasons why.
2. Businesses Embrace iPads, But Don’t Know Why iPads lead the spread of tablets within businesses, but for many the strategy is murky. Also, most expect tablets won’t replace laptops. Read on to know why.
3. Free Guide: 10 Reasons To Implement eLearning All training requires effort to make it work, whether face-to-face or over a computer. Once you have an e-learning course up and running, however, it has distinct advantages. Here’s why e-learning can be as easy as counting to 10.
4. A Practical Guide To Creating Learning Scenarios A learning scenario consists of a description of a realistic situation (usually fictional), accompanied by one or more questions that challenge the learner to respond to some aspect of that situation. But it’s not as simple as it sounds. Here’s a practical guide that will help you create effective learning scenarios.
5. The Best eLearning Demo I Have Ever Seen Talks about an eLearning program by luxury automobile maker Lexus, at a time when it had debuted along with a whole new philosophy of car sales. The program mainly focused on training, or re-training salespeople to act differently and creating the new Lexus experience through the salespeople.
6. 10 Tips For Designing mLearning And Support Apps Gathered up here are some of the best practices of mobile app design which can be applied to mobile learning and mobile performance support.
7. How the Internet is Revolutionizing Education As connection speeds increase and the ubiquity of the Internet pervades, digital content reigns. And in this era, free education has never been so accessible. Know how the internet is revolutionizing the education landscape.
8. Top 10 Awesome Android Features that the iPhone Doesn’t Have We love both Android and iOS, but the open nature of Andorid just means it can do things others just can’t. Here are 10 awesome Android apps and features that you won’t find on its Apple-clad brethren.
9. Another Proposed Definition of “Game” This article proposes a new definition for ‘game’ and goes on to explain each of its several disparate elements that combine to make an event that is larger than the individual elements.
10. How HTML5 Will Transform the Online Video Landscape HTML5 holds immense promise for the future of web video, the stakes are complex. Here’s a breakdown of where the industry stands in terms of browsers, video services and content providers.
11. HTML5 Isn’t Solving Mobile Dev Issues Yet HTML5 will likely make mobile development easier but not for some time, says a group of wireless experts.

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1. From Classroom To Online, Think “Transform” not “Transfer” Converting an existing classroom course to an online format can be a tricky, time-consuming undertaking. There are some aspects of the classroom program which are most successful and some which fail. Read on to learn some specific re-design tips that work.
2. Globalizing E-learning For International Audiences Research shows that learners learn best in their native language and familiar cultural context, by respecting local languages and cultures at every level. In today’s flat world, it is imperative that learning professionals modify the business process and design all courses as if they were going global. Learn about the processes involved in globalizing.
3. Game-Based Learning: Hype Vs. Reality It’s a known fact that computer and video games have the potential to make significant learning impact. However its potential is currently not being realized – at least not at a meaningful scale. Know if game-based learning is a hype or reality, or both.
4. 4 Ways Mobile Tech Is Improving Education With Internet in the palm of our hands, educators are looking at mobile as the next big tool for schools. Here are 4 ways in which mobile devices are helping improve education.
5. Web vs. Native Mobile App? Forrester Says Do Both Research firm Forrester takes a deeper look at the mobile Web versus application debate. And here’s a rather startling conclusion: there is no debate at all. So what is the future of the mobile Internet? Are native applications going to be the dominant form of digital interaction? Will new and developing browser technologies like HTML5 make the mobile Web preferable to apps? Know it all here.
6. Augmented Reality and Web 3.0 After Web 2.0 there have been speculations about Web 3.0 and what it would be. Furthermore, what about Web 3.0 and Augmented Reality? What potential does it hold? Read it all here.
7. QR Code Classroom Implementation Guide QR Codes in the Classroom are valuable for mainly 3 reasons. Read further to explore these reasons.
8. Smartphones Remaking the Way Men Work and Live Smartphones are remaking the lives of their male users, according to a new survey from Spike TV. The study found that men are unabashedly in love with their smartphones, a borderline addictive relationship that has empowered and also distracted men in both small and profound ways.
9. Apps In Emerging Markets: One Size Doesn’t Fit All The massive growth in mobile usage in Latin America is opening up a lucrative new market for developers. But simply rehashing an app built for another region won’t cut the mustard, according to BlueVia.

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For those of you who have been bitten by the iPad bug, we have included some cool apps. Besides this, we also have some tools that will help you in mobile app development. Read it all here in our Weekly Digest – a collection of our top 9 links from the week gone by, each accompanied by a quick brief. Need to quench your thirst for the latest in learning, technology and media links further? You can dig into our previous lists here

1. Top 10 Challenges Of Blended Learning With the expansion of the global workforce, and the continuous shifting of global economic factors, the time for blended learning has arrived. But how do we make sure we do it right? What are the hidden challenges that can create a roadblock to success before we even roll out the program? Find it all here.
2. Informalize Formal Learning: Smarter, Closer, Simpler, and More Appealing The world is full of ever-growing complexity, while at the same time the desire for simplicity drives much behavior. Learning is no exception. Engaging users simply, directly and quickly via informal methods is key to recruiting them into more in-depth and traditional learning formats. Know how you can informalize formal learning.
3. When Learning Is The Work: Approaches For Supporting Learning In The Workplace When you think about one great learning experience you’ve had, can you remember where it occurred? Was it in a classroom or workshop, or did it occur while you were completing the task? There is a good chance that it occurred during the latter. Learn how you can support learning in the workplace by leaving the golden age of training and embracing learning in the extended workplace.
4. Mobile Learning: The Next Evolution With the introduction of new mobile products such as the iPad, iPhone 4, Droid and Windows Phone 7, it is not surprising that mobile technology growth rates have quickly surpassed other digital technologies such as radio, television, personal computers and even the Internet. The question surrounding m-learning is no longer if, but when. Know the steps to implementing a successful mobile learning strategy.
5. 10 Reasons To Use Digital Textbooks The future is here. If you’re looking for ways to cut costs as either a student or teacher, why not consider digital textbooks? There’s cheaper, easier to use, and a lot easier on the back. Here are 10 reasons why digital textbooks score a notch higher than their paper counterparts.
6. 10 Must Have iPad Apps for 2011 Much against many people’s expectations, the iPad has hit the ground running ever since its release, and with the innovative apps that have been gracing it, it’s hardly surprising. Here is a list of apps that have already been released or are soon to be released that should go some of the way towards justifying your iPad’s price tag.
7. 11 iPad Apps For Meetings And Presentations Meetings and presentations are a way of life in the business world and there’s nothing worse than dragging around a bunch of files and equipment. Here are 11 iPad apps that will make your life a tad lighter.
8. 30+ Tools For Building Mobile Apps (+ Poll!) Find over 30 services which aid in mobile app development.
9. U.S. Smartphone Market: Who’s the Most Wanted? According to the latest figures, 31 percent of consumers who plan to get a new smartphone indicated Android was now their preferred OS. Get the statistics here.

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That’s not all. There’s some food for thought for both the left and the right brainers. For all you Tech savvy folks, get the scoop on how technology wires the learning brain and how HTML 5 aids cross platform development. While all you creative geniuses can learn some of the great iPad tools for graphic designers.

Find it all here in our Weekly Digest – a collection of our top 17 links from the week gone by, each accompanied by a quick brief.

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1. The Future Is Now : Think Mobile First
Mobile challenges many assumptions because of its unprecedented growth and potential. Ignore it your own peril, because all signs point to it leading the way in the digital revolution. So, think future, think mobile.

2. The Future Of Work
How do you view the future of work? Are you living this future today? Here are some thoughts and ideas about the future of work.

3. 4 Big Ideas That Will Change The World Of Training
Even though technological innovation occurs at rapid speed and new learning theories emerge from cognitive research, large and entrenched training organizations move like slow dinosaurs. Here are four big ideas can propel us forward, hopefully sooner rather than later.

4. Don’t Want To Be A Training Dinosaur? 3 Ways To Embrace Learning 2.0
As learning continues to evolve into a new, fast-paced world, it is important to embrace the social, mobile, and learning 2.0 technologies. This article lists and explains 3 ways in which you can do so effectively.

5. Signs Of Being In e-Learning Hell
Know the tell-tale signs which indicate that you are in e-Learning Hell. Know it from a designer’s and a learner’s perspective.

6. 3 Wonderful Resources For eLearning
Want to know about the practicalities in eLearning development, or a more in-depth understanding of lifelong learning options, or do you want a better understanding of the effect (or non-effect) discussion still accompanying blended learning. Get it all here.

7. The 4 Pillars Of Gamification
Think you know all about games? Read this article to know and understand the four key areas to a games design.

8. 20 Best Websites To Download Free EBooks
Reading is the simplest way for human to derive and constructing meaning in order to gain a particular knowledge from a source. Here are 20 websites that allow you to download eBooks for free.

9. Paper And Pencil Curriculum: How Much Do You Rely On It?
Technology expert Ben Johnson wonders how learning – and schools- would change if teachers stopped using paper. Know more.

10. 7 Reasons Why You Should Buy An Android Phone Instead Of An iPhone
Android offers many features and functionalities that are reasons enough to choose an Android over an iPhone or any other competitor for that matter. Know the 7 top reasons.

11. Managing A Digital Life: Teachers Friending Kids
The teacher-student relationship is all about guiding the student through a set curriculum involving reading, writing, arithmetic, and so on. This is and has always been a professional relationship, not a social one. However with the growth of social media, social relationships are becoming the norm of the day.

12. Productive iPad Apps for Graphic Designers
Compilation of great iPad tools for Graphic Designers. Here’s the added advantage – most of these are universal, which means they can run on the iPhone as well.

13. How HTML5 Is Aiding In Cross-Platform Development
Disparate platforms have created the need for a unified way to develop web and mobile apps. HTML5 might be the answer. Know how.

14. Using Farmville to Teach Standards
The goal of the game is to plant and harvest crops, trees, and animals with players gaining coins used to purchase seeds for future crops, trees and animals, as well as decorations used to customize player’s farms. But how can you use Farmville to teach standards? Know more.

15. How Technology Wires The Learning Brain
Kids between the ages of 8 and 18 spend 11.5 hours a day using technology – whether that’s computers, television, mobile phones, or video games – and usually more than one at a time. That’s a big chunk of their 15 or 16 waking hours. But surprisingly that does not that spell doom for the next generation.

16. Visualized: Android Activations Mapped Geographically, Chronologically, Breathtakingly (Video)
Here’s a video that shows Google-produced map of the world that throbs with Android activations over time, highlighted by some truly eye-opening flourishes in the immediate aftermath of marquee handset launches.

17. Apps Continue To Overtake Mobile Web
Mobile applications are overtaking mobile Web browser usage in terms of monthly use. In addition, apps are now second only to messaging in usage activity, beating both voice and Web for the #2 spot.

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But our loyalties towards mobile learning cannot be questioned! For all you mobile lovers, dig in to know about the top trends in mobile, cool iPhone Apps for educational purposes and studying aboard, and tons of iOS Apps for freelancers.

Find it all here in our Weekly Digest – a collection of our top 22 links from the week gone by, each accompanied by a quick brief.

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1. Mobile Trends: The Future Guide To The Best Predictions For 2011
Find the most interesting and relevant trends, anticipations and predictions about the mobile world and how these will affect any web site publisher work in 2011.

2. Engaging Learners with Emerging and Connective Technologies
It is time for schools to foster learning environments that empower learners with the tools that allow their voices and ideas to touch the world; embrace their choice of path, creation, and representation of their learning; and provide them with environments to support the development of 21st Century habits. Read to know how schools can engage learners with emerging and connective technologies.

3. Training Evaluation: A Mug’s Game
Training more efficiently is a mug’s game. Managers and workplace performance professionals should focus on Working Smarter, by helping people learn and develop socially.

4. How Effective is Your Training? Focus on Measurements that Matter
Just as logging after-school reading activities is no measure of a child’s reading comprehension, neither is a post-training quiz if it’s incapable of measuring anything meaningful or performance-related. Read this post to understand how you can write better quiz questions.

5. A Quick Guide To Attitudinal Training
If you’re involved in creating a course with the explicit or subtle goal of changing an attitude, you might be wondering how to go about doing this. Attitudinal training is one of those under discussed topics, because most of us are focused on intellectual skills.

6. The Future Of Learning
What is the future of education? With the upsurge in ownership of smart mobile devices such as iPhones, Androids and Blackberries, the rapid social penetration of touch screen computers such as iPads, and an increase in the purchase of Kindles and other e-reader devices, the future of learning is definitely smart mobile.

7. The Human Factor: Delivering Training to Multi-Taskers
Don’t look now, but your learners are multi-tasking. Regardless of the age group your class belongs to, the delivery mode of your training, or how carefully you’ve constructed your lesson, in today’s world, it’s rare to gain your learners’ full attention. Know how to deliver training to these multi-taskers.

8. 5 Traits Of The Super Learner
How strong is your capacity to learn? Can you leap complex concepts with a single bound? Master a new language faster than a speeding locomotive? Roll your eyes at hyperbole without even blinking? Know if you fit into the mould of a super learner.

9. 90 Awesome iOS Apps for Freelancers
Find over 90 apps that will empower you as a freelancer to get more done when you’re away from your computer. Whether you’re a designer, writer, consultant or anything else, you’ll find tons of helpful tools.

10. 100 Awesome iPhone Apps for Studying Abroad
Gone are the days when studying abroad was more of a worry than an opportunity to see new things, people, and places. These days, all that the student needs is common sense, a destination, and an iPhone. So set up an international plan, and download these iPhones apps, then prepare yourself for the adventure of a lifetime.

11. 10 Ways Technology Supports 21st Century Learners in Being Self-Directed
Life in the 21st century provides a whole new world of opportunities for self-directed, passion-driven, personalized learning. Here are 10 ideas every teacher should consider when supporting learning for students today.

12. E-Learning Early Indicators
Putting the rumors about ‘LMSs being almost dead’ to rest, here are five indicators that will give you insights into what to expect from an LMS in the future. Featuring amongst the ‘Best Product Debut at TK11’ is Upside2Go, our revolutionary platform for mobile learning. Read it all here.

13. HTML5 Will Be Done in 2014, What Comes Next?
Even though many are already using the still-unfinished language to code complicated web apps, the web’s governing body made the transition official by announcing that HTML5 will be complete by 2014.

14. The Ultimate Guide To Using iPads In The Classroom
You’ve heard of the iPad and seen it in action. But what purpose would it serve in the classroom? You might be surprised.

15. Educational iPhone Apps for Small Business Owners
With more people using smartphones, companies can take advantage of mobile training options. Here are a few possibilities to consider.

16. Report: Blended Learning Could Hit Or Miss
Blended learning has the ability to transform education, according to a new report – but if certain guidelines and practices aren’t ensured, blended learning could become just another add-on to an archaic system on its way out, the report warns.

17. Employee Engagement Matters for eLearning
According to most definitions, an “engaged” employee is a high-quality performer who takes personal responsibility to work toward the success of an organization. How can organizations foster a culture of employee engagement? Read this article to know more.

18. Video Games to Enhance Learning
Learning experience can be made more enjoyable by creating video games into which educational content and assessment tools have been surreptitiously added – and to incorporate such games into school curricula. Know how other schools are carrying it out.

19. Graphics for eLearning: Why and Where I Buy Them
Think finding appropriate graphics for your eLearning courses is eating up a major chunk of your time? Here are different types of images and places where you could find them, in half the time.

20. eLearning startup Opportunities : eLearning Technology
If you were going to do an eLearning Startup – where would you focus? Or if you are doing an eLearning Startup – what is it? Know the different opportunities present in the eLearning domain for startups.

21. The 2010 Mobile Year in Review
comScore presents the inaugural Mobile Year in Review report, a look at the top trends in mobile throughout 2010 and their implications for the coming year. The report looks across the U.S., EU5 and Japan, providing insights on the dynamic mobile ecosystem.

22. A Few Good Online Survey Tools
Online surveys can be a huge help in understanding what your constituents think and how successful your programs are, without breaking your budget. Here are few good online survey tools.

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And, how could we possibly end this post without mentioning the iPad? Besides the latest scoop, news and stories, you can also find tips, tricks and tutorials to help you get the most out of this 9.7” wonder.

Find it all here in our Weekly Digest – a collection of our top 20 links from the week gone by, each accompanied by a quick brief.

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1. How Blended Learning Will Change the World
Online learning, cheap access devices, open content, and broadband will soon provide low cost universal access to quality high school learning and building a bridge to post secondary and job opportunities for the next billion youth. Read this article to know how blended learning will empower hundreds of millions of youth to lead healthy and more productive lives.

2. Three Trends That Will Shape the Future of Curriculum
What we as adults experienced in school, as educators and students, will bear little resemblance to what lies ahead. Here’s a look at current trends, their implications, and changes to watch for.

3. Time’s Up – Learning Will Forever Be Part Formal, Part Informal and Part Social
The magnetic vortex known as the Four Levels of Evaluation, utilized pervasively and at times blindly within the learning industry, has run its course and is in need of an update, if not a replacement. This article states why it’s time for the learning profession to evolve.

4. E-Learning Trends 2011
Learning Circuits recently polled readers on how they’re using eLearning in their organizations. Here’s what they had to say.

5. SimplyBox – The Future of Organizational Collaboration?
SimplyBox, described as ‘the only decentralized and contextual enterprise communication solution’, is an interesting tool. Besides that fact that you don’t need IT to install it, it has other cool features that can set the future for organizational collaboration. Know how.

6. Working with Visual Weight in Your Designs
In design, visual weight is a powerful concept that allows us to create visual hierarchy, symmetry, balance, and harmony in designs. This article will tell you how to work with visual weights better.

7. Learning Tools Directory 2011
Lists well over 2,000 tools that will assist you in making learning easier, faster and better.

8. 100+ Online Resources That Are Transforming Education
Most education innovation is centered around a short list of fundamental ideas. This post gives a walk through nine clusters of education tech companies.

9. Beginning Instructional Authoring: Decide What to Leave Out
Numerous authoring tools can import PowerPoint slides, including Articulate Presenter and Adobe Presenter. What you put on these slides becomes part of the eLearning content, so it’s pretty darn important. Learn what not to do when developing PowerPoint for eLearning.

10. TechKnowledge 2011: Why Learning Professionals Still Have a Lot to Learn
The hard reality is that organizations are not implementing effective eLearning as much as we think. People are talking a big game, but few are actually doing it. Read this to know why the learning road for training professionals is still a long one.

11. The Secret To eLearning
Online courses are on the rise as firms continue to cut training budgets and the newly redundant update their skill sets. This post reveals some secret formulas for effective eLearning.

12. The Complete List of iPad Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials
The Apple iPad is an amazing tablet, that goes without say. To help you get the most out of it, here’s a comprehensive list of every tip, trick, and tutorial for you.

13. Mobile Content & Collaboration: Let’s Face It, You Aren’t Ready
It’s 2011 and mobile devices are flying off the shelves faster than ever before. It’s time for the real mobile revolution! Except, let’s face it, you aren’t ready for this. Read on to know why.

14. Create iPad Stories with StoryPatch
Story Patch is a beautiful new application now available for the iPad that allows your children to tell stories in a fun and intuitive way. Story Patch includes hundreds of illustrations and an easy to use interface that makes storytelling a breeze for kids. Read more about this cool app.

15. iPad 2.0: Can Faster, Thinner, Lighter Compete with Android Tablets?
The shocking details have been unearthed. The next version of the iPad – iPad 2.0 – will be faster, lighter, thinner and with at least 100% more camera than the original. It will be all you ever imagined and hoped for and then some.

16. Has The mLearning Moment Arrived?
The field of mLearning, or learning facilitated by mobile devices, has been generating growing interest in recent years and months. But has the mLearning moment arrived? Read on to know.

17. How to Use Google Documents: Video Series?
Learn how to use Google documents to organize personal and business documents and spreadsheets in this free software demonstration from internet program expert.

18. The Mobile Web Changes Customer Expectations
If you are thinking about building a mobile website and wondering why you need one at all, you’ll want to understand why the mobile web is truly a different medium. The game has changed and your customers will demand a new style of interacting with your business. Read on to learn how to cope with it.

19. The Real Story Behind the “Facebook Phone”
This device isn’t designed to be a major smartphone competitor. It’s a simpler device that will help teens keep track of their friends. Here’s all that you wanted to know about the Facebook Phone.

20. How The iPad Time Shifts Online Reading
Here are some facts that you would find hard to swallow. The time reserved for reading is shifted all the way to the right, with the sweet spot being between 7 PM and 11 PM at night. Learn how iPad usage is competing with primetime TV for people’s attention.

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