For all of you subject matter experts, trainers and performance consultants of every background, this one’s for you. Here’s eLearning 101: a guide to the tools of the trade to get you started building courses. Understanding SCORM Before we begin with the tools, you need to learn one quick, key term: SCORM. The sharable content… Read more »
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 Projecting Inventory Buys (Course & Calculator) $119 & up Volume Discount Price 1-5 0% $149.00 5-49 10% $134.10 50-99 15% $126.65 100+ 20% $119.20 Projecting Inventory Buys (Course & Calculator) By Retail Owners Institute Most retailers have heard of the inventory managing tool “Open-to-Buy”. But too often,… Read more »
We are proud to announce we have been awarded a Brandon-Hall Excellence in Learning Technology Silver Award in the Content Authoring and Content Management Technology category for our patent-pending SCORM video player. It’s our goal to unlock elearning with new technology, better ways to purchase content and great service, and this award demonstrates that we’re… Read more »
We’re proud to share our first article in eLearn Magazine: A Curator’s Tools & To Do List, an exploration of using curation techniques to manage information in the enterprise environment. Are you using curation techniques in your organization? Tell us about it in the comments!
In today’s world, from the biggest companies to the mom-and-pop shops down the street, finding employees with basic financial skills is a challenge. At OpenSesame, we’re pleased to feature a new set of elearning courses from the Retail Owners Institute that meets this need with humor and creative instruction. ROI owners and retail experts Pat… Read more »
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 Mastering Your Image in the Workplace $9 & up Volume Discount Price 1-9 0% $15.00 10-49 3% $14.55 50-99 7% $13.95 100-499 14% $12.90 500-999 20% $12.00 1000+ 40% $9.00 Mastering Your Image in the Workplace By Seattle Image Consulting The question is: “How do you want your company… Read more »
There is not just one reason why enterprises make the elearning leap. Some companies are looking for a way to train remote employees, others need a way to accommodate scheduling conflicts. Others still are just fed up with the old way of doing things and are looking for a more efficient, transparent way to share… Read more »
Big news! OpenSesame is thrilled to welcome Tom Kuhlmann and the E-Learning Heroes Roadshow to Portland on Thursday, April 5. Learn from the master and you too can be an elearning hero! Tom focuses on bringing out the design genius in every elearning developer, with tips on leveraging basic resources to create excellent elearning content.… Read more »
Each year the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) surveys learning and development professionals and compiles their findings into the State of the Industry Report. This industry standard report includes measurements of budgets, hours invested and the number of staff devoted to learning and development, with useful differentiations between the best-performing training organizations and… Read more »
Social media gets attention for enabling communications among diverse networks and, among learning and development thinkers, for its capacity to support collaboration and learning. But a less-discussed role of social media in the professional context is as a support network for small business owners, freelancers or other solo practitioners. If you’re alone in your office,… Read more »
Big news! The OpenSesame team is proud to announce that we have partnered with Mindleaders to add their catalog of more than 2,800 elearning courses to the OpenSesame marketplace. With courses on everything from technical certification to business and soft skills, Mindleaders is recognized worldwide for the wide scope of their catalog, the excellent production… Read more »
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 Change Management – Managing Change $39 per seat Volume Discount Price 5-9 20% $31.20 10-24 30% $27.30 25-49 40% $23.40 50-199 50% $19.50 200+ 69% $12.09 Change Management – Managing Change by Vubiz Managing change means leading teams effectively through difficult and dynamic circumstances: This is a leadership… Read more »
In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig says, “And what is good, Phaedrus, and what is not good — Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?” Well, unfortunately, yes. Sometimes we could all use a little help. If you are in a position to purchase training for your team, you… Read more »
The OpenSesame team is pleased share a new catalog of management, soft skills and ethics courses from Quality Media Resources (QMR). The QMR team, led by founders Robert and Patricia Rosell, builds excellent courses that use video to illustrate abstract concepts with real examples, excellent characterizations and compelling stories. Since 1992, QMR has dedicated their… Read more »
Last year I was interviewed for a promotional video for for a local community parks program. I was chatting with the nonprofit organization’s outreach director about their communications strategy – and she mentioned that her agency had not done much with social media yet, but was hoping to use this video as a jumping-off… Read more »
The year-end top 10 lists are something of a cliche, but I love them! They’re fun to read and inspire reflection. In honor of the approaching year-end, here are my top resources of 2011: Sites, articles or resources I visited over and over again, sent to colleagues, memorized or otherwise relied upon, in no particular order.… Read more »
Holiday Greetings from OpenSesame This holiday season, the OpenSesame team is celebrating a year of growth. From the number of courses for sale in the OpenSesame marketplace to the number of hoodies we’ve given to buyers, sellers and partners, we’ve grown aggressively throughout 2011. We deeply appreciate the support, participation and engagement of the entire… Read more »
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 Business Dining Etiquette $24.99 Volume Discount Price 25-99 20% $19.99 100-199 28% $17.99 200-499 36% $15.99 500+ 40% $14.99 Business Dining Etiquette by Advancing with Style The business lunch or dinner is more than a meal. It’s a time when relationships are developed and contracts are signed.… Read more »
As an open marketplace for buying and selling elearning courses, OpenSesame supports a variety of different elearning course formats: SCORM (both 2004 and 1.2), AICC and video files. (For more information about our SCORM video player, check out the release notes.) We have rapidly become experts at fine-tuning SCORM publishing settings in a variety of… Read more »
