Courses manually curated and administered give rise to inefficient processes and lackluster analytics. Why put employee engagement and performance at risk?

To help you meet your organization’s performance goals, Aura Talent – a competency-based talent management solution by Enovation – and OpenSesame have combined forces to automate your learning workflows with next-level technology that goes beyond SCORM or AICC.

We are delighted to partner with OpenSesame. OpenSesame combined with Aura Talent brings best-in-breed learning content with intelligent curation based on employee skill gaps and career ambitions. We are very excited to see how our customers use OpenSesame to grow their employees’ capability. At a time when companies are concerned with attrition, our partnership is the perfect way to invest in employees, boosting engagement and retention.

–Mark Melia, Chief Product Officer, Enovation

Together let’s power your course setup and reporting capabilities to better drive performance organization-wide.

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#1: Address retention head-on.

As I shared last month, retention is the name of the game for everyone. I can bet it’s as important to you as it is to me. Partnering with OpenSesame helps you strengthen your retention play, particularly with your existing customers. Content gives you a reason to go in with a new offering. You can bring it up on a monthly call or in a QBR. One of the easiest ways to retain customers in your learning platform is to give them a reason to keep coming back. Off-the-shelf content is the gift that keeps on giving. 

#2: Solve an important challenge for your customers.

Every organization has some employee challenge they are itching to solve. No one is exempt from this. Some organizations want to improve their wellness initiatives to better support their team members. Others might be leaning into DEI. And still, others might be trying to find ways to build a pipeline of future leaders. No matter the challenge, more often than not, off-the-shelf content can play an integral role in addressing the challenge head-on. When you leverage content in your sale, you can easily become a more consultative, trusted advisor to your clients. 

#3: Sell the fridge, fully stocked.

If you’ve ever been in a conversation with me or anyone from my team, you’ve likely heard the fridge analogy. If you haven’t heard it yet, humor me for a bit. Imagine strolling through your local hardware in search

 of a fridge. You get to pick the fridge you want. Maybe you’re going for something simple and you go for something plain and white. It gets the job done. Or maybe you want to get a little fancy and you get the fridge with every bell and whistle imaginable. It even sends a text to your phone to tell you you’re low on milk. Whichever fridge you choose to purchase, it’s still showing up to your house empty. And an empty fridge does you no good. 

When you bring an OpenSesame content specialist alongside you, you’re going to market with a fully stocked fridge. Off-the-shelf content is a powerful tool for you and your customers, and our team would love to come alongside you as a key piece of your go-to-market strategy. We are better together, and we can’t wait to share in some wins!

About OpenSesame

OpenSesame helps develop the world’s most productive and admired workforces through powerful workforce eLearning in every industry. With the most comprehensive catalog of eLearning courses from the world’s top publishers, OpenSesame’s learning experts guide global companies every step of the way. From finding the course to mapping them to core competencies, syncing them with an LMS to increasing utilization and improving L&D programs. OpenSesame provides the flexibility of multiple purchasing options with simple to use and administer eLearning courses. In a moment of an increasingly virtual workforce, OpenSesame has added even more Global 2000 brands. And with over 25,000+ OpenSesame catalog courses, the eLearning platform touches all industries in all markets. The company is defining a new era of engaging a people-first talent force. To learn more, visit www.opensesame.com

About the Author

Rasheité Calhoun is the Manager of Strategic Partnerships with OpenSesame. She prides herself on bringing a fresh approach to client solutions, convinced that we are always on the cusp of something new and great. With over a decade of experience in higher ed publishing, Rasheité brings a distinct niche of problem-solving and a proven track record of driving results to the eLearning world. Rasheité holds both a bachelor’s degree in technical writing as well as a Master of Arts in English, which both contribute to her creative approach to strategy and solutions. Above all, Rasheité believes that we are living through a massive disruption that will transform learning into something we have all yet to see or experience. She is excited to play a role in such pivotal moments where digital, learning, and imagination collide.

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Portland OR– 23 October 2021– OpenSesame, a market-leading SaaS global eLearning innovator, announced a partnership with KochaSoft to expand their IT-focused offerings to provide enterprise organizations with mission-critical cloud and SAP training.

KochaSoft, a cloud training and education company that formerly delivered customized courses to global cloud leaders and IT consultants, is rapidly expanding its topic library to include topics other than SAP and the cloud. This library will feature Office 365, Cybersecurity, Web Development, Machine Learning, and several other IT disciplines. These courses are critical for IT-focused organizations to succeed in the future, and they will teach skills in high demand.

“In the workplace, we are always on the lookout for new ideas. KochaSoft is one of the best IT-focused learning management systems on the market, and they are transforming the way employees train. Their strategic partnership will expand our IT course offerings via their LMS, allowing businesses to manage corporate training and assess the commercial impact of their IT training programs. We could not have asked for better collaboration.” -Tom Turnbull, VP of Partnerships. 

Employee training has changed and will continue to change. People are working remotely and remaining active members of their teams regardless of their location. Traditional, or only in-person training, is no longer enough in light of this change. It is not only inflexible and expensive, but it is also ineffective for modern organizations, forcing employees and leaders who are well-versed in enterprise technology to be in great demand.

“As organizations grow and evolve their workforces, IT skills are more and more in-demand. It’s becoming increasingly less economical for large organizations to recruit this talent, so learning and development have become a necessity,” said Bruce Chen, Director of Marketing at KochaSoft. “OpenSesame is the perfect partner to help us offer new courses to serve other areas of their IT education needs in a scalable, synchronous fashion.” 

The OpenSesame collaboration with KochaSoft provides over 25,000 courses to assist enterprises in Canada and around the world in developing more analytical and actionable learning.

About OpenSesame

OpenSesame helps develop the world’s most productive and admired workforces through powerful workforce eLearning in every industry. With the most comprehensive catalog of eLearning courses from the world’s top publishers, OpenSesame’s learning experts guide global companies every step of the way. From finding the course to mapping them to core competencies, syncing them with an LMS to increasing utilization and improving L&D programs. OpenSesame provides the flexibility of multiple purchasing options with simple to use and administer eLearning courses. In a moment of an increasingly virtual workforce, OpenSesame has added even more Global 2000 brands. And with over 25,000+ OpenSesame catalog courses, the eLearning platform touches all industries in all markets. The company is defining a new era of engaging a people-first talent force. To learn more, visit www.opensesame.com

About KochaSoft

KochaSoft specializes in IT-focused training solutions through its flagship cloud-based learning management system (LMS) and Cloud Experience Center. The training was specifically designed to develop leaders, upskill large enterprises and normalize their competency with previously complex IT and cloud systems. To learn more, visit www.kochasoft.com/lms. 

Media Contact

Hallie Janssen

Vice President of Marketing

hallie.janssen@opensesame.com

(917) 253-7355

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As a result, with a little bit of focus and a little bit of the capability to search online for the things that we need, we are able to become overnight experts ourselves. Content and platform — these are two of the elements we need to be able to learn the things we want to learn, or, in a business context, the things we need to learn in order to do our jobs, and to do our jobs better on an ongoing basis.

Mobile and microlearning play out in our daily lives

So how does this all relate to eLearning and content? Well, how we learn at home is actually not that different from how we learn in a business or enterprise context. We want to execute a required or desired function, and we want to do it well. And we need two things in order to be able to do that effectively: the content that is actually relevant to our job function, and the platform that enables us to absorb that content and apply it effectively.

This is where two evolving aspects of eLearning factor into the game: mobile learning and microlearning.

Let’s deal with each one independently first.

It’s no secret that mobile learning has been a huge element of eLearning in recent years. Right in line with the 70:20:10 philosophy that submits effective learning has three essential components — namely, experiential, social, and traditional (i.e. classroom-based and instructor-led) — mobile learning acknowledges that learners need information delivered to them on the job and right at the point of need.

It used to be accepted that learners could absorb all of the required knowledge in the classroom in advance of actually exercising the function of their jobs. No longer is this the case. Classroom knowledge retention is actually rather low. Learners, of course, need to learn key essentials of their job requirements from lessons provided in advance of actually engaging in their roles. But according to the 70:20:10 approach, they’ll only retain a small part of classroom knowledge, and what they will retain is what they have learned on the job, through experience.

Leverage already adopted tools

Now let’s move that forward and look at the learning landscape we have right now. Learners are used to learning with their devices, be they smartphones or tablets, in hand. These represent natural opportunities to get information right to the learner, right at the point of need.

Hypothetical, but let’s imagine an individual in manufacturing, at the plant-floor level, dealing with a perceived health and safety threat. Once upon a time, that worker would have to dive into the depths of their memory to recall a classroom lesson that related to the immediate threat. In the new model, the employee need only visit his or her mobile device, find the relevant application or lesson, and determine what to do in that immediate circumstance.

Desktop computers, textbooks, and instructors used to be far from us. Now, the essence of what we need is accessible right in our pockets, courtesy of our devices.

And it just begins there. Microlearning supports mobile learning in an enormous way. If you aren’t familiar, microlearning is a way of delivering essential learning content to learners in small, bite-sized components. Think of the recipes you learn on Facebook that are provided in under 60 seconds. That’s only one way of providing microlearning content effectively. And think of how that can be delivered. It can be on a bus or subway ride. It can be at any time of the day. It can be on the job, at the point of need.

So, obviously, mobile learning and microlearning have a natural synergy. They’re natural bedfellows — something I explored in a recent report. And they’re both elements that need to be leveraged in any LMS and content arrangement that you are using in order to maximize learning and development potential.

About the Author: Paul Leavoy is a Senior Content Manager at Docebo and writes about the biggest themes in learning and development. A longstanding journalist with over a decade of experience writing on business, environment, and sustainability, Paul has been writing and developing content in the cloud software space for over seven years.

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