To create compelling training programs and meet the needs of a diverse workforce, you work with hundreds, if not thousands, of OpenSesame elearning courses. Keeping them organized, sharing with the key stakeholders in your organization, and collecting feedback becomes increasingly important as your organization grows—and as you manage more courses. Lists are a great way to organize and share training courses. ... [more]

One reason companies choose OpenSesame remains the integration with a growing list of Learning Management System (LMS) partners. These partners have embedded the OpenSesame catalog of over 20,000 courses into their system for you to easily browse, purchase, and sync courses directly to your own LMS. Finding the embedded catalog in your LMS How customers accesses the embedded course catalog differs for each of our LMS partners. ... [more]

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Did you find an OpenSesame course and purchase it online for yourself? If you purchased a course online with OpenSesame, you can start viewing your course immediately afterwards. You can also return to the website to watch the course at a later date or pause halfway through to resume later. Let’s walk through how easy it is to access your course again after you have purchased it. First, make sure you are logged into your OpenSesame account. After logging in, you will see “Hello ‘Your Name’” in the top right hand corner of the window (see below). ... [more]

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One of the reasons that companies choose OpenSesame remains the flexible options you have to purchase from us.  One of our most popular and affordable offerings, OpenSesame Pay Per Use provides you the flexibility to pay only for the courses you actually use. ... [more]

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In a recent OpenSesame webinar, Cushing Anderson, IDC’s IT Education and Certification Research Program Vice President, shared his research of the characteristics and practices of 250 organizations and their use of elearning. Anderson outlines that having the right amount of courses and implementing an elearning program is not a guarantee of success. ... [more]

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  You may have noticed some changes to your OpenSesame Activity Report. We’ve made enhancements to optimize the speed of pulling these often lengthy reports, especially those containing multiple years worth of data. To access the new and improved report, log in to your OpenSesame Dashboard. Click on “My Courses” will take you to your dashboard. On the left hand side of the page you will see your Activity Report tab. ... [more]

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With OpenSesame Course Lists, it's never been easier to create and maintain curated lists of courses for yourself or your employees. You’ll be able to quickly and easily add courses to a list from OpenSesame Search and course pages, as well as group items within a list such as by job role, department, employee level, etc.   Ready to start developing your learning plan within the OpenSesame platform?   Quickly and easily add courses to your list from the search results page:   1. Select course(s) using the checkboxes on the course cards.  2. ... [more]

Do you need to know: Who took courses? When courses were completed? How much time was logged by a specific learner in a course? Where to obtain completion certificates? You can easily access all of this and more via your OpenSesame dashboard. These activity reports provide you a detailed view of your training utilization on OpenSesame. They can be viewed directly within your dashboard or exported to a .csv format for easy review in a spreadsheet (e.g. ... [more]

According to a recent study, 7 of 10 employers believe that recent college graduates are unprepared in written and oral communication. As companies like yours take matters into your own hands by delivering training programs that address these critical 21st century skills, you are challenged with finding engaging, high quality digital content that can teach, assess, remediate, and measure learning outcomes such as simulations and games.  In fact, market research reports predict 22.4% growth in simulations and games over the next five years. ... [more]

OpenSesame is pleased to announce the first annual Training Jam, a gaming hackathon created to foster innovation and explore new formats for employee development running April 22-24, 2016 in Portland, OR. ... [more]

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