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5 Things We Have Learnt After a Year and a Half of Working From Home
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Breaking Down Big Data
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5 Key Trends In The Future Of Elearning
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Here’s How You Can Inspire Your Learners
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From The CEO’s Desk – Reimagine Training
As we gladly bid farewell to 2020 where life was disrupted and seemingly put on pause, 2021 is a second shot at making sure we get out of the rut and the…
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Upskilling Retail Workers In A Post-Pandemic World
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year, many industries were affected. There were clear winners e.g. e-commerce players, logistics, video conferencing,…
Our 2020 in Numbers
2020 was a year of drastic change, with many of us finding ourselves having to adapt to the changes in our lives as a result of Covid-19. These included…
Get Your Very Own White-Label App with SmartUp
Are you looking to release your own mobile learning app but have neither the time nor resources to build one from scratch? In that case, SmartUp's white-label…
What Customer Success Looks Like at SmartUp
Eunice Goh, SmartUp's Head of Customer Success, talks to us about what her job is like and how it has changed since Covid-19 pandemic. As the…
Unlock Your Hidden Learning Potential With SmartUp!
This week, the SmartUp Content Studio dived into the following topics: testing to improve learning, the challenges of digital training, the benefits of…
Want to Maximize Your Learning And Be A Better Leader?
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Why You Should Consider Starting A Podcast For Your Company
In 2020, you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn't have a favourite podcast to listen to during their commute or while they exercise. When people are…
How Testing Can Help Improve Your Learning Outcomes
All of us have been subject to some form of testing or another growing up, the most obvious being testing in schools. In a Singaporean context, the results…
Why You Should Learn In Chunks: Efficiency and Retention
Last week, we talked about the importance of being able to Create An Optimal Learning Environment Anywhere. But other than watching the occasional video,…
How To Excel At Learning And Grow Your Business
This week, we covered: Compliance, Creating An Optimal Learning Environment, Working From Home, and Key Takeaways from "How To Think Like A Rocket……
Create An Optimal Learning Environment Anywhere
We live in a very productivity centred world. Efficiency is key to everything we do, from creating faster management for your business to using the…
How To Put Together A Great Learning Experience? SmartUp Can Help!
Last week, we wrote about palatable learning, the benefits of starting a podcast, how to be a more communicative writer, and what a remote team needs to be…
SmartUp Can Help You Design An Ethics Training and More!
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5 Ways To Build Learning That Engages and Resonates
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Are You Up For Learning In The Face Of Uncertainty?
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Run Virtual Training Sessions Using Zoom as part of your SmartUp Journey
Keep your edge as a trainer using a combination of SmartUp and Zoom in your virtual workshops with your students! For the longest time, many of us have…
Learning From Your Team Is The Best Way To Affirm Their Value To Your Company
Monetary rewards and bonuses are awesome incentives but if you want to reward your employees with something that speaks louder than these, perhaps you can try…
Why Are So Many of Us So Bad At Learning?
Learning is vital to the success of an individual, as well as for the organization that employs him. Yet, most of us still don’t know how to do it. The more…
An Exciting Learning Platform For Singapore’s Bankers, Powered By SmartUp!
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We Are Learning The Wrong Things, At The Wrong Time, For The Wrong Reasons
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Don’t Let “Ugly” Content Drag You To Hell
Is your content the stuff of nightmares? Here's how to tell. I'm going to get straight to the point: Content is more than just words swimming around on a…
How To Build A Successful Consulting Business? Here’s One Small Contribution We Can Make
"For a fee, an expert will provide professional feedback about how your business can be more successful and give you a recipe about what you should do".…
Gen Zs and Millennials, Your Learning Attention Span Isn’t Just 8 Seconds
Millennials already make up 50% of the workforce and in the next couple of years, Gen Z and Millennials combined will make up 75% of your workforce. How do we…
Your Employees Need To Start Owning Their Self-Development
Not to sound preachy but ... isn't it time we stop finding excuses for those who just don't want to invest in their own careers? I think it's thanks (maybe…
How can consultancies benefit from microlearning?
Consultancy at its core is the practice of providing expert advice. Whilst in theory anyone can be a consultant by sharing information, the true skill lies in…
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Cultivating Students’ FinTech Knowledge Using SmartUp
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We all know the study done by Microsoft: the rising popularity of smartphones, mobile data, messaging apps, and social media is the cause behind falling…
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How One Company Improved Wellbeing Using SmartUp
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How the Thai Banking Academy Used Smartup to Train More Than 150,000 Banking Professionals
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How a Lean Management Consultancy Used SmartUp to Enhance Client Content Engagement
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Filling Learning and Communication Gaps at Malaysia’s Largest Telecommunications Company Using SmartUp
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So, You Want To Be A Chief Innovation Officer?
Today, hot on the heels of courses such as Digital Marketing, Lean & Agile, and Blockchain, SmartUp officially launches Innovation Management. Created in…
Disrupting The Multitrillion Dollar Healthcare Industry
Whenever we go to a medical check-up, we put our lives in the hands of our doctors and surgeons. When a doctor makes a wrong diagnosis and a mishap occurs, we…
How To Use Videos Effectively In Your Marketing Strategy
Videos rule the realm of B2B and B2C marketing. But how do you get started, and how do you boost your video production skills? We've asked Antoine…
Finding The Best Microlearning Methods For Your Team
By now, you've probably heard of how microlearning is shaping up the future of learning and how much your team can benefit from it. Do you still have doubts…
Women Are Still Being Shortchanged At Work. Here’s How Gamification Can Change It
A report released by Hired earlier this year revealed the worrying trend of gender pay disparity among tech workers. For starters, 63% of the time, men are…
What Can Underwear Teach Us About Business Branding?
How can a good online experience boost your organisation's branding efforts? What difference does it make sticking to your vision? And what does underwear…
How Important Is Data In Learning?
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Converting Content To Microlearning: How SmartUp Does It
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Advice from $30M ICO Trakinvest CEO on how your business can use blockchain
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This Is Why Microlearning Tools Are The Future Of Learning
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Millennials Are Terribly Unhappy With Corporate Learning (This Is Why)
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Data Analytics: 5 Learning Points For F&B Businesses
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Founded in 1899, Cycle & Carriage is a leading automotive group based in Southeast Asia and a member of the Jardine Cycle & Carriage Group. Cycle…
The Metaverse, NFTs and How E-Learning Will Be Impacted
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Promoting Continuous Compliance Knowledge in the Financial Services Industry Using SmartUp
Background Ingenia Consultants Pte. Ltd. is a Singapore-based managed service provider assisting financial institutions in licensing, compliance, and internal…
How Can Companies Help their Employees Reach their Learning Goals?
At the risk of belabouring a point, Covid-19 has changed the way corporations conduct learning, and the adaptations companies have made in response to…
How Can We Shift the Way We Learn to Adapt to Our Changing Attention Span?
You may have seen on big news outlets such as The Independent, Time Magazine, or the New York Times that our attention span has shrunk to less than…
3 Tools to Enhance Your Elearning Content Today
The advances in technology in recent decades have drastically changed the way we live today. Visits to the clinic are increasingly being replaced by…
The Best Skills to Consider Picking Up Right Now
Albert Einstein, the world-renowned physicist best known for his general and special theories of relativity, had a remarkable number of achievements throughout…
SmartUp Platform Facelift and Release of the Assessments Feature
After months of preparation and hard work, the SmartUp Team is excited to announce a major release on our platform. The first part of our major release…
How a Luxury Hotel in Bali Used Smartup to Improve Employee Financial Literacy
Background The Kempinski Hotels group is Europe’s oldest luxury group, serving customers across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The…
Maximizing Your Pockets of Free Time
Think over the past few workdays you’ve had. Can you say with certainty that every working minute you’ve had (excluding your meal break, if you do take one)…
Why New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work
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Supporting a Global Financial Services Firm’s Internal Training using SmartUp
Background The NMG Group is a global advisory and intermediary firm focused exclusively on the financial services sector. After establishing itself in 1992 as…
Learning Path is Live on SmartUp!
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How Enjoy Talking is Empowering Youths on SmartUp
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Wordle is the new phenomenon taking the internet by storm. If you are not already addicted to it, you should have at least seen the green, yellow and grey…
5 Learner Engagement Strategies That Can Motivate Your Users To Learn Better
If there is one thing that differentiates a successful training program from the one that's not-so-effective, it is 'Engagement.' Everyone faces a crisis of…
The Verdict – CEO VS AI, The Future of Content Creation
Alas, the crowd has voted - the human may still be the better teacher. In our recent teaching experiment, we pit our CEO, Eunice Goh, against Colossyan’s…
How To Learn Effectively With Different Online Formats
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If you’ve had experience with any of the various learning management systems and platforms, particularly as an admin, you have most likely come across various…
Are E-Learning Storyboards The Next Thing For Digital Learning?
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