Check out our course of the week: AB 1825 California Sexual Harassment Prevention Training by Syntrio! ... [more]
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 that aren’t Wikipedia (darn it!) are critical to my academic success. With a free student account and a general idea of what I’m interested in learning about, JSTOR gives me access to peer-reviewed articles in the best academic journals in just seconds. ... [more]
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]
Check out our course of the week: Increase Productivity with Outlook 2010 by The Effective Edge! ... [more]
Check out our course of the week: Develop Customer Loyalty by Cegos! ... [more]
You’re excited about creating your first elearning course. You have expertise in a useful topic and you want to share your insights. Excited to get started, you log on to check out various elearning blogs, message boards and social media groups. After just half an hour, your head is spinning. LMS, MOOC, SCORM... Gamification, authoring tools, summative evaluation... Suddenly, the technical details, diverging opinions, and semantics of the elearning world are standing in the way of you and your big ideas. ... [more]
In November 2018 OSHA will implement new standards for fixed ladders. See OpenSesame’s updated guide, “Six Guidelines for OSHA ladder safety 2018” for a summary of new ladder safety standards. Ladders, when used effectively, make large-scale jobs easier. Anyone in construction understands the advantages of this tool. Workers gain access to hard to reach spots with light and portable equipment. Set up and take down is quick and easy. ... [more]
OpenSesame was born in a kitchen. In a small, dark room with a sink, an empty hole where an oven used to be and tile floors, our first days were packed with hard work but lacked glamor. After we launched our elearning marketplace, we soon moved into a space the size of a large SUV - where we packed in about 10 people, countless computers, jungles of cords and several whiteboards. The office worked for us, but it wasn’t anything special. This summer, when we hired 27 interns to help us achieve our summer sprint goals, we knew we needed to change. ... [more]
Localizing your training is a daunting multistep process. It forces companies to take into account linguistic and cultural factors that they would otherwise take for granted. For example, say you want to use an image indicating positive affirmation in your elearning course about effectively giving feedback. For viewers in the Americas, even those originally from other countries, the image we take for granted as ‘the archetypical symbol of positive affirmation’ is the ‘thumbs up’ gesture, pictured here. ... [more]
