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’ models of choosing training over giant, expensive content libraries. ... [more]
Last week I traveled to Las Vegas with several of my colleagues for the eLearning Guild’s DevLearn 2011 - a meeting for learning and development designers and professionals to share ideas, skills and best practices. ... [more]
The OpenSesame team will be traveling to Las Vegas this week for DevLearn, the eLearning Guild’s annual scrum for elearning developers, leaders and thinkers. ... [more]
We are proud to announce that we have been selected to present at Venture Northwest! The Oregon Entrepreneurs’ Network (OEN) organizes Venture Northwest each year to connect investors, venture capital firms and investment bankers to exciting young companies based in the Pacific Northwest. ... [more]
The OpenSesame team is incredibly proud of our partnership with LINGOs (Learning in NGOs), a leader in providing learning and development resources to humanitarian organizations like the Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity and CARE. These organizations do life-saving work addressing crises such as the current famine in Somalia. ... [more]
As conference season ramps up, the OpenSesame team packs our bags. We’re ordering hoodies, making hotel reservations and looking forward to meeting the elearning buyers and sellers who use OpenSesame to meet their learning and development needs.First on the schedule is our appearance at TechCrunch Disrupt, an opportunity for tech startups to showcase their technology, gather feedback and make connections. ... [more]
After spending our 2010-2011 conference season handing out OpenSesame hoodies at DevLearn, ASTD TechKnowledge, Learning Solutions, the CLO Symposium, ASTD International Conference & Expo and eLearning DevCon, we decided it was time to find out where those hoodies had spent their summer.It turns out some of them have been eating pretzels.And some have been napping.And others have been to the beach.Or to the World Series of Poker, in Las Vegas.But after a challenging, brutal, argumentative meeting of the OpenSesame executive team, our winner is the majesty of the great outdoor ... [more]
This week, the OpenSesame management team is in Las Vegas for the Future of Web Apps, an annual event connecting web developers, business visionaries and creative technologists. (Our team will be tweeting the whole experience with the hashtag #fowa - don't miss it!)OpenSesame is co-sponsoring this conference alongside fantastic technology companies like Windows Internet Explorer 9, Zappos and Ning because we are eager to think about professional training content in a larger context: How is the web evolving? How do people use applications? ... [more]
Last week I traveled to Salt Lake City for eLearning DevCon, a conference targeted at elearning designers and developers. On Tuesday, I shared my reflections on sessions by Jeremy Friedberg of Sponge Lab and Curtis Morley of Franklin Covey. ... [more]
Last week I traveled to Salt Lake City for eLearning DevCon, a small, focused convention targeted at elearning designers and developers. This conference gets into the nitty gritty, with sessions examining new technologies and successful case studies. ... [more]
