Ready for another week of awesome elearning deals? We have a stellar lineup of discounts for you this week in the compliance & safety, business skills, and industry specific (construction, medical, restaurants, etc) categories. Featured savings this week include courses on management and leadership, Spanish language learning for supervisors, and more! Business Skills Leadership… Read more »
Ideally, the best way to learn a foreign language is through immersion, for at least a year, in a foreign country where they speak the language. Unfortunately this is not a realistic option for most of us. Luckily, online language learning has come a long way in recent years. Online courses are helpful for beginners… Read more »
How do YOU manage your work/life balance? If you don’t have a quick response, it might be time to take a closer look at your strategies. Today, I’ll focus on stress management and good communication as key components to a healthy work/life balance. Stress Management For me, scheduling is key. I thrive on having… Read more »
Consider this—as little as 15 years ago, most of the work performed today didn’t exist. The rapid adoption of technology in the workplace has fundamentally changed the way business is conducted. Fear not my friend! There are number of traits and talents that transcend these dramatic shifts and continue to be in demand year after… Read more »
I have long loved the famous quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi: “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” What is it I want to change? The list is long and contains many noble pursuits, but the one I most lament is that here in the US we are not a culture of… Read more »
We’re back with another round of great elearning deals for you this week! You’ll find savings on tech & software, compliance & safety, business skills, and industry specific (construction, medical, restaurants, etc) courses. This week’s deals include savings on interview skills, HTML5, HIPAA compliance, and more! Business Skills Interrogators Bundle by Deliverers Nail every… Read more »
This year OpenSesame is hitting the road to spread the word about our elearning marketplace. From California all the way to London, we are looking forward to seeing current customers and sellers in person, as well as getting to know many of you. Looking for some quality conferences to attend this season? Join us at… Read more »
At OpenSesame, we strive to make selling and purchasing elearning as simple as possible. We ourselves had experienced the challenges of accessing quality content—the lengthy negotiations, multiple year contracts, and complicated pricing—prompting us to launch OpenSesame more than two years ago. Since our launch, we have built a platform that dramatically reduces the time from… Read more »
The polar vortex may have subsided, but the questions and concerns it raised about how to stay safe while working in freezing conditions have not. We’ve covered hot work and staying safe in the heat and are now here to help you keep your cool (pun intended) while doing cold work. OpenSesame offers more than dozen… Read more »
This year, I read Bruce, a biography of the musician Bruce Springsteen, and Born Standing Up, a memoir by comedian/actor Steve Martin. One thing that both Springsteen and Martin share throughout their careers is a seemingly endless desire to improve their craft and find the right “voice” at different points of their lives. For example,… Read more »
Ready for some awesome elearning deals? We’ve got great savings lined up for you this week in a variety of subjects from tech & software, compliance & safety, business skills, to industry specific (construction, medical, restaurants, etc). This week’s deals include savings on conflict resolution, employee onboarding, and more! Business Skills Increasing Your Emotional Intelligence… Read more »
Since becoming UK Law in October 2010, the Equality Act has received a great deal of press with recognisable discrimination cases in international football, sports media, healthcare, leisure and the police, to name but a few. Three years on, despite the equality and diversity debate being aired daily in TV news reports, newspaper articles, radio… Read more »
For 2014, you’re determined to be healthier—not just get fit, not just eat right, but the whole kit and kaboodle. And we’re proud of you for taking this first step. But where to start? There are many factors involved with achieving a healthy lifestyle: exercise, eating right, emotional support and a positive mindset, to name… Read more »
When a top five Fortune 500 company set out to elevate its internal performance by ensuring strong core skills for new hires, Technology Transfer Services was up to the task of creating a large pool of global-ready training resources. Our company was identified as the prime training vendor—tasked to coordinate project delivery, help design visual… Read more »
A while ago a friend of mine, the crazy smart Karl Fast, tweeted: User experience design is not about right vs. wrong, it’s about better vs. worse. Ask yourself “is this better” instead of “is this right.” When I talked to him about it further, the distinction was this: “Right” is based on expertise (if… Read more »
Human communication can be broadly defined as the sharing of experience or the creation of meaning between two or more people (Tubbs & Moss, 2008). Moreover, our ability to make meaning through the use of signs and symbols (images) is what makes human communication so unique. Nonverbal communication, by which more than 60% of social… Read more »
Hello! I’m Abby Miles, the new Product Manager for OpenSesame. With nearly a decade of experience in the training and software industry, I am really excited to join the OpenSesame team. My previous experience has perfectly prepared me to understand the OpenSesame business and our customers. I held multiple positions at an LMS company (learning… Read more »
One of our goals this past year was to ramp up our blogging efforts, creating more quality content that covered industry topics, training news and improvements to the OpenSesame site. Since the beginning of the year, we’ve published more than 200 posts on everything from the updated GHS standards, to the best Mac productivity apps—even… Read more »
The volume, velocity, and variety of data available today provides learning professionals unprecedented opportunity to understand our users and impact our business. However, most of our industry’s analytics are still stuck in a mindset of delivering some flavor of “course completion” (scores, time on task, number of attempts, butts-in-seats). In 2014, I am committing to… Read more »
2013 has been a great year for us here at OpenSesame. We've grown our catalog to more than 22,000 courses, expanded our weekly course deals, and will soon be adding a new subscription option. Of course, none of this would be possible without your support, and we thank you for your patronage. OpenSesame
