Have you ever worked tirelessly to excel at something, only to be surpassed by someone else who does not even have to try? Maybe you put all your effort and weeks of practice into a sports play or a project at work. The bottom line is that some people are just better at certain things than others. I am 5’ 2” and will probably never play in the WNBA, no matter how hard I practice. ... [more]
Quarter 3 is flying by for us! We had a beautiful summer in Portland and are enjoying our last few sunny weeks. Last month we said farewell to our summer interns and we welcomed our next class of fall development interns to the team (keep an eye out for a blog from them coming soon!). When we weren’t busy soaking up Vitamin D, we also added some useful new tools to OpenSesame to improve the customer experience. ... [more]
OpenSesame’s dedicated blog readers may find my face familiar. I am part of the content team at OpenSesame, actively building and maintaining our seller community on the marketplace. I joined OpenSesame two years ago in 2012, and I am continuously amazed by the amount of engagement and growth in the elearning space. ... [more]
OpenSesame is the world’s marketplace for buying and selling online training courses. Whether you’re looking for a course for yourself or for your entire team, OpenSesame offers more than 20,000 courses in topics from compliance and safety to information technology and soft skills. You can find the courses you need to train your team efficiently today! While OpenSesame supports using courses in a web browser or through CourseCloud, if you’re training a large team, you can quickly and easily distribute courses via your company’s existing LMS. Here’s how: 1. ... [more]
We’ve been working on some great new resources to help support you in running your training program. OpenSesame Plus: Report Downloads From the OpenSesame Plus subscription manage page or course specific manage pages, we have added the ability to download CSV reports of your “Track Users” data. This allows for easy exporting and analysis of your training records within Excel, or the spreadsheet tool of your choice. The report downloads include: At the OpenSesame Plus subscription level, we provide overview data such as the date the user was added, how many courses completions they have, what level of access they are permitted (Course Specific vs. All of OpenSesame Plus). At the course specific level, we provide course level details including their course status, when they were enrolled, when they completed, their score, and a link to their completion certificate. ... [more]
I am genuinely delighted to join OpenSesame. Over the last several years I've worked in sales and business development in the translation industry, most recently working for Powerling and its subsidiary Atril Solutions, selling foreign language translation services and related software. ... [more]
Remember the excitement you experienced as a child when you got a new toy? All you wanted to do was play with it and find out all it could do. But a few months after the original excitement had worn off, you were onto the next thing, and the old toy was left behind. ... [more]
Hi there! I am Carl Kaplan, Content Specialist. I’m excited be joining the excellent folks here at OpenSesame and am looking forward to helping the content team expand our library of courses. ... [more]
We're so excited to welcome our 2014 marketing interns! These seven will be assisting the marketing team and working on projects company-wide. Keep an eye on the blog—you'll start seeing posts by our interns as early as next week! ... [more]
Check out the changes that we have made to simplify, streamline, and add functionality for our learners and our admin customers. ... [more]
