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How to Run OpenSesame Courses in Your Existing LMS

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… Read more »

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Get 20 courses for $20

Thousands of courses, instantly ™ Regulation Compliance Employee Development Business Growth   Skills, Compliance & Safety by Syntrio Get 20 courses for $20 Soft skills topics including leadership and sales Compliance training such as harassment prevention Safety essentials like bloodborne pathogens Starting at $20 Top management courses Six Sigma Yellow Belt Selling to Decision-Makers Engaging… Read more »

NIIT and OpenSesame Announce Content Partnership

Today the OpenSesame team is thrilled to announce our latest strategic partnership: We’re working with NIIT, the global provider of managed training services, to provide NIIT customers with online training courses from the OpenSesame marketplace. Known worldwide as a leader in learning outsourcing, with a presence in more than 44 countries, NIIT provides relevant training… Read more »

Course of the Week: Turn Around Performance Problems

Thousands of courses, instantly ™ Regulation Compliance Employee Development Business Growth   Turn Around Performance Problemsby The Inside Coach Coach employees to resolve performance problems Identify performance issues Create actionable improvement plans Coach employees toward success   Starting at $25.60 Top compliance courses Drug-Free Workplace Harassment Prevention WorkplaceViolence Top management courses Time Management Manage for… Read more »

Three Steps to Conducting Effective Behavioral Interviews

In his classic analysis of the success of top-performing companies, Good to Great, Jim Collins writes, “To build a successful organization and team, you must get the right people on the bus.” The interviewing process plays a critical role in finding the right passengers. Hiring and training a new employee involves a significant investment of… Read more »

Media Release: OpenSesame and NetDimensions Announce Partnership and Integration

Today, we are proud to announce a new partnership with NetDimensions, the global provider of performance, knowledge, and learning management systems. This partnership will enable NetDimensions’ millions of users to search for, purchase, and deploy training courses from the OpenSesame marketplace within the NetDimensions Talent Suite, instantly. OpenSesame and NetDimensions will integrate our platforms to… Read more »

How to Take Courses on OpenSesame

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 learn new skills and… Read more »

5 Major Trends in Corporate Training

5 Major Trends in Corporate Training

The tense job market and rocky economy is driving rapid change in the corporate training sector. It’s not good enough to boost employee productivity – you have to develop satisfied employees to improve retention and keep your training investment in-house. Organizations are pushing hard to build these satisfied, productive and effective workforces, and that means… Read more »

Wiley’s For Dummies eLearning Courses Now Available on OpenSesame

OpenSesame is excited to announce the addition of Wiley’s For Dummies series of online training courses to the elearning marketplace. Wiley’s best-selling “For Dummies” brand creates videos, books and eLearning courses to make any learner an expert in topics of personal and professional interest from Microsoft Office to digital photography. The instantly recognizable yellow-and-black branding… Read more »

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Top 10 eLearning Tools (A Gen-Yer's Take)

Every year, Jane Hart compiles her Top 100 Tools for Learning. In the spirit of helping her build an extensive list informed by new ideas and approaches to existing technologies, I’ve compiled a list of online learning tools I use as a student and marketing intern with OpenSesame.   JSTOR – As a student, sources… Read more »

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OpenSesame Senior VP Featured in Learning 2012 Podcast

OpenSesame Senior Vice President and General Manager Joshua Blank was recently featured on a podcast with Learning 2012’s Elliot Masie. In response to questions about shifts in the elearning industry and OpenSesame’s adjustment to accommodate these developments, Josh touched on the growth of online training needs, as well as the growing trend towards choosing ‘pay-per-use’… Read more »

Three Ways to Use Online Training from OpenSesame: Online, via CourseCloud™ or in Your LMS

OpenSesame is an online marketplace for training courses, with more than 20,000 courses from 250 different sellers. With OpenSesame, buyers can shop for courses from different sellers, preview courses, and read reviews before making a purchase. OpenSesame offers unprecendented flexibility in buying and using online training courses.  Buying Courses on OpenSesame There are two easy… Read more »

Course of the Week: Increase Productivity with Outlook 2010

Thousands of courses, instantly ™ Regulation Compliance Employee Development Business Growth   The Effective Edge for Outlook 2010 by The E ffective Edge Increase productivity and save time using Outlook 2010 Optimize email, calendar and tasks with Outlook Keep track of long-term projects and everyday tasks Reduce time spent looking for information Starting at $37.25… Read more »

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How OpenSesame Reduced Page Load Time By 75%, Increased Organic Visits by 30%, and Improved Conversion Rate by 20% in Just 9 Weeks

The First Step is Admitting You Have a Problem Here at OpenSesame we love data just as much as the next startup – probably even more. We have your run-of-the-mill analytics tools, marketing automation scripts, remarketing scripts, scripts to monitor our other scripts… You get the picture. At some point, our scripts got away from… Read more »

Working hard to improve site speed

Course of the Week: Develop Customer Loyalty

Thousands of courses, instantly ™ Regulation Compliance Employee Development Business Growth Developing Loyal Customer Relationships by Cegos Teach your employees to win repeat business Identify the keys to boosting customer loyalty Improve customer satisfaction by resolving complaints Turn consulting opportunities into sales Starting at $39.20 Top sales courses Sales Through Service Selling Decision Makers Using… Read more »

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Putting Facebook to Work For Your Business

Assuming you’re one of 995 million people in the world who has a Facebook account, you’ve probably already discovered just how captivating and useful the social networking platform can be. What you may not know is how Facebook – when used effectively – can be used to grow and improve your business. From expanding your… Read more »

3 Important Factors for Marketing Your Content Online

Online content marketing is imperative to establishing a brand or company as a leader in their industry. But how exactly does one go about doing it in the most effective way? The answer lies in a two-pronged approach: developing content that caters to your customers’ needs coupled with leveraging search engines and interrelated marketing strategies… Read more »