Dive Brief:

• Recently, World HRD Congress, which is an organization that awards companies for innovative and outstanding contributions to e-learning technology and training in India, awarded G-Cube, a 15-year veteran to learning solutions, two awards. G-Cube won best use of mobile learning technology and best use of video in a training program.

• How did G-Cube manage to win both awards, as reported on the eLearning Industry blog? First, they created a training program that enabled their client, Aditya Birla Finance Limited, to shift from traditional classroom training and into a modern, audio-visual method that included animation. This training enabled employees of the firm to better engage with learning content in smaller self-paced modules.

• Winning for mobile learning was accomplished by G-Cube as they developed a custom learning program for fitness chain FitnessFirst, which combined 8 modules in a mobile-friendly platform. What made it unique was that it was developed on a HTML5 language to prevent accessibility problems, because users would be connecting via any number of different types of mobile devices and internet connections.

Dive Insight:

There are some critical takeaways from the approaches that G-Cube uses when developing new digital learning technology. First, the solutions must be based on end users, and making the experience better for them. Secondly, there is a big push to reduce instructor led training and transfer it to e-learning content, but this must be done in such a way that learners do not lose out in the process. Understanding how learners use content and how they take it in are vital to making any type of training a success, whether it’s for corporate or commercial purposes.

G-Cube has won multiple awards over the years, including Brandon Hall Awards for Excellence in Learning and Technology, The Deloitte Tech Fast 50 India Award for 5 consecutive years, and the NASSCOM Emerge 50 Award, among others.