Getting Stuff Done in 2018: Facing Creative Burnout or Overwhelming Tasks
Advice on how to get stuff done when you're feeling burnt out.
Working in a Virtual Team: Observations of a Remote Worker
Confession: I am an introvert. I realized this pretty quickly when I took one of those self tests and got to the question about whether I was energized after being in the company of others, or whether I felt drained.…
Open Education Resources (OERs) Lessons Learned
Over the past four years, we have worked with several universities to build online and blended courses with open education resources (OERs). The goal for all is to provide free or low cost options for students while keeping the same…
Helping our Houston Friends
At Luma, we contract with subject matter experts across the country to help write curriculum. Over the past couple of weeks, several members of our Houston team have been either directly impacted or personally know someone who has been impacted…
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…
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…
