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]
My roommate and I have been on a “watching the classics” kick: If the weather is crummy, we hole up on the couch to watch classic films we missed somewhere in the last 50 years or so.So far, this has included watching the entire Dirty Harry series, with giggling glee at how scary and intimidating Clint Eastwood is. Lately, we have transitioned into catching up on all the Robert Redford classics: Sneakers, Operation Condor and, last night, All the Presidents’ Men. ... [more]
With thanks to the great folks at Knewton for making it possible to share their excellent infographic on the state - and future - of elearning and digital education. Created by Knewton and Column Five Media ... [more]
The first rule of social learning: Learning will occur whether or not you’re tending to learners’ every need.The second rule of social learning: You can, however, add value by connecting people, organizing information and adding content. (For How Tos, read our series on How to Create a Social Learning Environment.)Supporting social learning with online community learning spaces requires time and attention.Surely, someone will ask you the inevitable question about the ROI on this use of your time. ... [more]
OpenSesame is a growing technology company. We're building the world's marketplace for elearning courses, and in this difficult economy, we're proud to be creating jobs and building a strong, new company. We're proud to share that we are seeking a marketing analyst to enable us to continue building our lively community of elearning buyers and sellers. If you are seeking job opportunities in marketing, campaign development and data analysis, please read the full job description for more information. OpenSesame is an amazing place to work. ... [more]
A few months ago, after many colleagues, friends and family members asked me to help them get started on Twitter, I made a quick screen capture and narration course that I could email links to easily and share widely. Since then, people have viewed the free video course hundreds and hundreds of times both in the OpenSesame catalog and on YouTube. After seeing the wide demand, I was inspired to create a more usable course (now with navigation!) that still quickly covered the basic functionality of my favorite social network. ... [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]
Your office is a community: A network of people connected through a common theme, associating themselves voluntarily around a common purpose. On your worst days, when you’re thinking of tossing your laptop through a window, it may not feel like that. But building your community, is a powerful way to improve connectedness and facilitate learning.As a learning leader, it’s your role to support, connect and enable your community members by diagnosing skills gaps or organizational obstacles that slow your team down and developing creative solutions.This is a new way to think about doing your job. ... [more]
As we build an international elearning marketplace, we’re always thrilled to feature some of the creative developers selling their elearning content on OpenSesame. The folks from Capturator are doing their best to make you more international, by creating effective and interactive elearning courses teaching Spanish, French, Italian and English. Capturator founders Marie Hédiard, Kurt Röllin and Marco Loche are examples of those magical people - both creative and technical - who love to learn and help others learn. ... [more]
We are proud to announce that Frank Corsaro, Pete LeDoux and Spencer Thornton - experienced learning and development experts - have joined the OpenSesame community development team.We’ve been working hard to build relationships with both the buyers and sellers of elearning content in order to build a world-leading marketplace connecting the elearning community. The next step towards is to build an experienced, capable and networked business development team to connect the courses in the marketplace to companies worldwide. ... [more]
