Onboarding Quickly and Efficiently
How many times have you started a new job and had to sit in an all day training (or multiple days or weeks) to learn everything you needed to know about your new job? How much do you remember the…
Dr. Gina Anderson
Being Healthy on the Road!
Summer time is often a time for travel and a time where many of us are on the go and on the road. This means health and fitness are the first things that go out the window. While this may…
Driver Road Check is Coming!
The Stay Metrics team partnered with Luma has released a FREE refresher training and self-assessment in advance of Roadcheck 2017, with a focus on Cargo Securement. Fleet managers and drivers everywhere can take the training by using and sharing the…
Using Problem-based learning
Problem-based learning (PBL) is an effective instructional approach first developed for use in health science fields to immerse students in complex situations (Barrows & Tamblyn, 1980). Luma has found it to be a promising approach to teach children (Dysard &…
Building a competency-based program
Academic programs teach students industry-specific skills that they will need to have a successful career. But what if they can do so much more than that? What if they can also show the student what they are good at, and…
Taking aim at domestic violence in the workplace.
We are proud at Luma to have great partners with important missions–domestic violence awareness is at the top of our list.“We see acts of public violence increasing across our country, almost on a regular basis,” said Schumann, who notes 1…
What skills do I need to be an instructional designer?
At Luma we are often asked: What skills do I need to be an instructional designer? The discussion of defining instructional design is not new in our field. The Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) defines instructional design as,…
Advancing Learning Science
According to The U.S. Mobile App Report, 60% of all digital media time in the U.S. is spent through smartphones and tablets (Lella & Lipsman, 2014). There is an interest to further explore and understand how mobile and digital technologies…
A Letter from Anonymous
This month, we have been writing topics related to domestic violence. Interestingly, one survivor of abuse contacted me to express her appreciation about bringing awareness to this important topic, but she wished more was being done at her workplace related…
