Northstar Learning

bloombergquint | March 19, 2020

Packham taught herself two popular software programs for videoconferencing, Zoom and Kaltura. She plans to hold office hours via Skype and produce TikTok videos to explain the importance of food stamps in the current economic crisis. She’s already recorded a video lecture for her 41 students, but is far from satisfied with it. “If I was a student, I would not want to watch this,” she says.America has 1.5 million faculty members, and, like Packham, 70% have never taught a virtua...

PR Newswire | August 10, 2020

Recognizing the vital role that higher education will play in our state's economic recovery from COVID-19 and in socioeconomic mobility for communities hit hardest by the pandemic, Governor Gavin Newsom's Council for Post-Secondary Education today announced the creation of the new California Higher Education Recovery with Equity Taskforce. The Taskforce—made up of state and national experts in higher education equity and innovation—is chaired by Governor Newsom's Senior P...

EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY

businesswire | November 10, 2020

Open to anyone and convenient for everyone, Learning Unlocked the first-ever public learning and development conference from elearning innovator OpenSesame connects attendees with authors, athletes and other thought leaders in an entirely digital and uniquely digestible format. Unlike other online conferences that take attendees away from their work for hours at a time with back-to-back sessions, Learning Unlocked brings inspiration to participants in a series of one-hour sessions broadcast live...

TALENT DEVELOPMENT

Accenture | February 21, 2022

Accenture has made a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures, in Talespin, a spatial computing company focused on workforce talent development and skills mobility. Talespin’s platform delivers XR-based learning and training applications, mixed reality job aides to support employee job performance and a new skills-based approach to work and productivity. The World Economic Forum projects that by 2030, over one billion workers will have needed to reskill, as the core ...