If you’re a seller in the OpenSesame elearning marketplace, your profile is more than just a quick stop on your way to to selling training courses - it’s your opportunity to help customers find your courses and to feel confident about them. Here’s five essential steps to creating a great OpenSesame seller profile: Add an image. Whether it’s reading a blog, skimming through news articles or scrolling through search results, peoples’ eyes are captured by interesting images. ... [more]

As elearning continues to comprise a growing portion of the overall mix of corporate training and learning initiatives, elearning developers are eager to position themselves ahead of the curve. What courses are in demand? Where can they differentiate their services? Based on data from our own marketplace and industry-leading analysts, here’s our Top Ten eLearning Topics for 2012.   The 30,000 Foot View of eLearning From a high level perspective, the broadest categories of interest are management skills, compliance content and industry- or product-specific knowledge. ... [more]

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 elearning courses. Understanding SCORM Before we begin with the tools, you need to learn one quick, key term: SCORM. The sharable content object reference model (or SCORM) is a software standard that governs how course files communicate or report information to learning management systems. “Wait!”, you cry. ... [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. ... [more]

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 Johnson and Dick Outcalt are industry-recognized leaders in providing training, coaching and resources to the managers and owners of retail businesses. ... [more]