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TheAcademy.com has been approved as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education
and Training (IACET), 1760 Old Meadow Road, Suite 500, McLean, VA 22102. In obtaining this approval, TheAcademy.com
has demonstrated that it complies with the ANSI/IACET Standards, which are widely recognized as standards of good
practice internationally. Because of their Authorized Provider membership status, TheAcademy.com is authorized to
offer IACET CEUs for its programs that qualify under the ANSI/IACET Standards.
This is a significant recognition for TheAcademy.com and for the organizations whose training courses it
produces and delivers. Thus, beginning immediately, all students that successfully complete a training course
produced by TheAcademy.com will be awarded full or partial IACET Continuing Education Units (CEU). The IACET CEU
was created as a measurement of quality continuing education. One IACET CEU is equal to ten hours of participation
in an organized continuing education experience under responsible sponsorship, capable
direction, and qualified instruction.
TheAcademy.com is one of a limited number of on-line training providers to receive approval as an Authorized Provider.
The company offers continuing education courses for many industries, associations, and corporations. It also offers
general continuing education courses for students in all fields of endeavor. Students who successfully complete a
TheAcademy.com course will receive a full or partial IACET CEU, and will receive an appropriate certificate. This
certificate will verify the students' successful efforts to improve their skills and increase their knowledge through
quality continuing education.
In the approval process, IACET thoroughly reviewed both the actual on-line courses and the methodology with
which TheAcademy.com designs and produces them. IACET determined that TheAcademy.com meets all the criteria necessary
to become an Authorized Provider. The criteria are based upon educational research and have stood the test of time. They
include a learning environment conducive for students, needs identification, course planning, content, and instructional
methods, assessment of learning outcomes, and course evaluation. Because of these comprehensive and strict criteria, the
IACET CEU has evolved from a quantitative measure to a hallmark of quality training and instruction.
IACET is a non-profit association dedicated to quality continuing education and training programs. IACET's
criteria and guidelines are the core of thousands of educational programs worldwide. Located in McLean, VA,
IACET grew out of a National Task Force on continuing education commissioned by the Bureau of Education
(now the Department of Education) in 1968. The task force included the leaders in continuing education,
such as the American Medical Association and American Nursing Association.
The IACET Task Force determined the universal guidelines for continuing education and created the Continuing Education
Unit (CEU). The task force created IACET to provide both a forum for discussion of education standards and an organizational
body to promote quality standards. IACET's guidelines are based upon in-depth research on the learning process.
IACET certifies only education providers that meet these strict continuing education guidelines.
Other IACET Authorized Providers include:
- American Management Association
- American Occupational Therapy Association
- American Physical Therapy Association
- Bechtel University Continuing Education
- Culinary Institute of America
- Dun & Bradstreet
- Federal Emergency Management Association (FEMA)
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Continuing Education
- Health Canada Office of Continuing Education
- Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
- University of Texas Continuing Education Programs
- University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education
- Howard University Continuing Education
- Institute for Continuing Healthcare Education
- OSHA Training Institute
- Ohio Department of Mental Health
- Air Force Services Agency
- US Army Community Support
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